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Sure. No solution is one size fits all. This particular solar installation happens to be in Colorado, very close to a lot of area where pumped hydro would be ex
by lambda 3y ago
Sure. No solution is one size fits all. This particular solar installation happens to be in Colorado, very close to a lot of area where pumped hydro would be extremely cost effective.
Somewhere like Kansas, wind power and battery based storage may be more effective.
Here's a map of pumped storage hydro potential; note how dense the potential is throughout most of the Western US. https://maps.nrel.gov/psh https://maps.nrel.gov/psh
- op00to 3y agoPumped storage requires creating new lakes, destroying existing ecosystems.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoAnd creating new ones. Why are the existing ones more valuable?
- dralley 3y agoThe entire point of pumped hydro is that you're constantly draining and replacing the water. The reservoir is not an ecosystem.
- 8bitsrule 3y agoAnother graphic: https://hydrosource.ornl.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/hmr_us_psh_2021_final.png https://hydrosource.ornl.gov/sites/default/files/2021-08/hmr...