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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valhalla360 wrote: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.
Well most of the good sites for pumped storage are in Cali and they won't even build new reservoirs to prevent their periodic droughts the certainly won't build them for this project. The last reservoir built was during the reign of Governor Brown, not gov. moonbeam, his father back in the early 1960's. That's 60 years ago more or less.
