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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by Animats on Monday March 03, 2025 @10:10PM (#43249839)
There are 86 large pumped storage sites in the world. It does work, but you need the right geography. You need two good reservoir sites at considerably different levels close to one another. That's somewhat hard to find.
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Re:Geothermal power is a climate moon shot beneath our feet by igor47 on Friday March 07, 2025 @11:47PM (#43297578)
https://www.volts.wtf/p/whats-the-deal-with-pumped-hydro

David Roberts

Yeah, we have a lot of hills. And that's it. So, other than that, you could plop one of these down almost anywhere.

Erik Steimle

That's correct, yeah. You need some proximity, obviously, to transmission and load.

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