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>you can't really add new rivers to the geography to support additional industry. yes, you can - with all those fiords surrounded by mountains you can use exce
by trhway 6d ago
>you can't really add new rivers to the geography to support additional industry.
yes, you can - with all those fiords surrounded by mountains you can use excess wind/solar (your own as well as German, etc.) and pump water up a dammed fiord to generate the electricity later when no cheap excess available.
- Oh-Kay_Labs 6d agoWell, we don't have fjords or mountains in Sweden, otherwise a great plan.
- jplrssn 6d agoThere are both mountains [0] and fjords [1] in Sweden, but not of the Norwegian kind they were probably picturing. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Mountains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_Mountains [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullmarn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gullmarn
- warpech 5d agoBuild a dam in the fjord and pump the water out from it with excess electricity! Profit
- prerok 6d agoThis assumes that there is excess power at some point. This will soon become unrealistic: we either need power for data centers during the day or charging vehicles during the night. The solution works only to keep a steady production of electricity, but if the demand would require full output all the time then these "mechanical batteries" don't help.