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"Hundreds of billions of dollars are being spent across the globe on solar energy and wind power. But when the sun goes down, or the breezes become still, where will the electricity come from? Iberdrola’s giant project — which uses water and gravity to generate power on demand, and then pumps the water back to the upper reservoir when rates drop — is part of the solution."
@cyrilpedia For what it's worth, this has been going on at the Wishon Dam in California since 1958. My step-father worked there as a heavy equipment operator.
@cyrilpedia we do this in Switzerland all the time
@cyrilpedia Liquid Metal batteries are another industrial scale solution to the storage problem.
But the worse problem with Big Solar and Big Wind is habitat destruction for Big Solar and spent tower disposal for Big Wind (and both are quite destruction of birds, and Big Solar is quite the hazard for pilots).
I'm a fan of micronuclear - if the regulatory people will ever update their procedures.