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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by organsnyder on Friday July 12, 2019 @04:54PM (#20424405)
Or build a reservoir next to a body of water. The Ludington Pumped Storage Plant next to Lake Michigan has 2172 MW of generating capacity and 19,548 MWh of storage capacity.
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Re:Giant batteries and cheap solar power are shoving fossil ... by Animats on Saturday July 13, 2019 @03:37AM (#20426985)
That site has a hill. 111 meter difference between the reservors. More would be better, but that part of the country doesn't have mountains.
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