Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
by Gibbon1 on Friday October 28, 2022 @04:01AM
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California quietly added 3GW of batteries in the last three years to shift mid day solar to the evening. I think part of the quietly bit is locating them at mothballed natural gas peaking plants. Advantage the power infrastructure is there and no use change permits needed.
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Re:Why Is Hydroelectricity So Green, and yet Unfashionable?
by pencilguin on Friday October 28, 2022 @02:38PM
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Before that, they attached pumps and ponds at the bottom of penstocks leading to reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were built decades ago.