A top to bottom look at green energy
I struggled with deciding in which forum to start this discussion. It could be germane to a lot of them. But since the Tesla thread has had so much activity, and Tesla's technology is central in the c...
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2112 wrote:
I found THIS interesting. They use excess wind energy to pump water up a mountain into a reservoir. Then they release the water into a hydrogeneration system when wind and solar is low. Of course this only works at a small scale in certain locations, but it's one way to store wind or solar energy.
Old news. There's a big one on Lake Michigan that's several decades old.
The problem is there are limited locations where it makes sense. Electric storage is still a huge issue.
