• Chloë (she/her)
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    41 month ago

    huh i hadn’t heard of this one? I went to a dam last year and that’s what the guide told us…

    • bobburger
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      41 month ago

      I think it’s the physical size of the reservoir that is the limiting factor. You can’t reasonable expand most reservoirs, but it’s relatively easy to create new hydrogen/methane storage tanks.

      • @sunbeam60@lemmy.one
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        21 month ago

        Yes but pumped storage is about 80% round trip efficiency vs power to x which is barely touching 20% out of the lab. And power to X needs an epic fuckton of very clean water, which also isn’t easy to find.