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Re:Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time by twelve40 on Thursday May 11, 2023 @02:36PM (#35906341)
pumped storage hydro, while really cool, are absolutely massive and complicated multibillion dollar infrastructure projects (which California lately has not been particularly famous for)
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Re:Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time by seanmcdirmid on Thursday May 11, 2023 @03:18PM (#35907044)
They were built decades ago, so not a big problem now. The west has lots of places to build these things, it doesn't work out east nor probably in the UK outside of maybe Scotland.
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