05-08-2025, 05:37 AM
(This post was last modified: 05-08-2025, 05:38 AM by danbrotherston.)
(05-08-2025, 03:51 AM)plam Wrote:(05-07-2025, 07:09 PM)tomh009 Wrote: They could turn off the gas plants (and US exports) and we'd have near-zero CO2 from electrical power generation.
Usually one worries about peak demand and off-peak renewables generation, hence needs batteries, but I suspect that hydro should be able to play that role, with dams etc.
I mean, "pumped hydro storage" is a form of battery storage.
But if we don't actually need to pump, we would only have excess power to deal with, which is a problem we want to have.

