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The Truth About Pumped Hydro | Real Engineering

submitted by eric3579

3 years 10 months ago

What about the use of pumped hydro for energy storage?

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It's a truly tiny pumped hydro station compared to the truly massive ones.

Moving this video to eric3579's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Not a silver bullet, but a useful system where it's feasible. I would like to see home systems designed that could store home solar/wind/thermal generation for later use. Batteries suck, are expensive, wear out relatively quickly, and are usually not "green". Micro pumped hydro could eliminate distribution issues (a big deal in California where they shut down the grid during wind storms now), and decentralizes power storage/generation, eliminating a major terrorist target, the power grid.

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued - promote requested by newtboy.

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