Articles pumped hydro energy storage https://www.freethink.com/technology/why-pumping-water-back-into-hydro-dams-beats-batteries-for-renewable-power?amp=1 Research paper? Downloadable https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2516-1083/abeb5b
Posts Tagged ‘long term energy storage’:
2022-01-20 Pumped Hydro For Long Energy Storage
They say the problem with battery energy storage is that they say it’s not long-term; for renewables we need long-term energy storage. Pumped hydro has been used for a hundred years. Nothing high tech or no scalability issues. Just dig two lakes, one above the other, with pumps and generators between them. The costs may
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2021-07-09 Hydrogen Can Do What Batteries can’t do
From FB group Heinz Baumann Your chart fails to show the whole picture. The chart doesn’t show that the renewables can’t supply the total electricity demand until the 20 to 35% capacity factor is accounted for by building 3 or more times the solar or wind that is needed. During the winter due to less
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