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There are 86 large pumped storage sites in the world. It does work, but you need the right geography. You need two good reservoir sites at considerably differen
by Animats 2y ago
There are 86 large pumped storage sites in the world. It does work, but you need the right geography.
You need two good reservoir sites at considerably different levels close to one another. That's somewhat hard to find.
- igor47 2y agohttps://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-pumped-hydro https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-pumped-hydro David Roberts Yeah, we have a lot of hills. And that's it. So, other than that, you could plop one of these down almost anywhere. Erik Steimle That's correct, yeah. You need some proximity, obviously, to transmission and load.