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Pumped hydro studies find 10x as many sites as required to fully decarbonize using solar + wind worldwide. There isnt that much of a shortage of up. This is al
by pydry 4y ago
Pumped hydro studies find 10x as many sites as required to fully decarbonize using solar + wind worldwide. There isnt that much of a shortage of up.
This is also before accounting for all the other ways power could be stored batteries, demand shaping and storing syngas.
- danans 4y ago> Pumped hydro studies find 10x as many sites as required to fully decarbonize using solar + wind worldwide. But what percentage are close enough to existing transmission? Perhaps some, but I suspect many suitable locations will be remote enough that new transmission needs to be built. It might make economic sense to do so in some circumstances, but not in others. In contrast, grid scale chemical storage (flow batteries, metal-air, etc) could be easily placed at existing fossil fuel plants and use the existing grid interconnects.