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Re:Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time by scythe on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:04PM (#35905881)
>Published studies confirm that, unlike for dams, the geography for this is very plentiful (contrary to nuclear lobby propaganda which routinely and dishonestly argues the exact opposite).

Could you please link this research? I have yet to find a thorough evaluation of pumped hydro resource availability anywhere.

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Re:Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time by pydry on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:12PM (#35906000)
https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/

>We found about 616,000 potentially feasible PHES sites with storage potential of about 23 million Gigawatt-hours (GWh) by using geographic information system (GIS) analysis. This is about one hundred times greater than required to support a 100% global renewable electricity system.

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