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It might be easy to build pumped storage in Boulder City, NV, situated among mountains near the Hoover dam. It would be much harder to build something similar n
by nine_k 2y ago
It might be easy to build pumped storage in Boulder City, NV, situated among mountains near the Hoover dam. It would be much harder to build something similar near Houston, TX, where the land is flat as a table.
- caseyy 2y agoThey are grid-wide plants, which don’t need to be near large population centres. Sierra Madres/Rockies offer great elevation gradients in West TX, if one would want to keep it in the state. This is a consideration but I don’t think it’s the real reason we don’t consider these plants.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> are pumped storage hydro-electric plants with abundant and cheap capacities You’re flooding gorgeous landscape near high property values.
- caseyy 2y agoI think this is more likely it. NIMBY is a plausible explanation for both the delays in building these plants and NPPs. Not to mention the guaranteed opposition to whoever suggests them as a politician.