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> Even just water pumping shifts energy into storage Could potentially reuse elevated water tanks? Guess the cost of the pumps might make the savings on the st
by maeil 2y ago
> Even just water pumping shifts energy into storage
Could potentially reuse elevated water tanks? Guess the cost of the pumps might make the savings on the structure very small, and no idea if the amount of energy would be significant to a farm.
- ggm 2y agoAs i understand it mostly the best use of pumped water is gravity fed watering for stock, or crops. Pumped hydro is great at dam size scale but the losses exceed battery. What it's got is the sheer gwh scale - snowy 2.0 will run for days and days riding out a dunkelflaut with a lot of gw fed out. 2.2 gw and 150 gwh usable. (They claim more but it's disputed) I don't think a farm needs that. Better to pump the water to a headstock keeping cow troughs full, or for crop circles. Not a farmer or an engineer. Happy to be corrected.