On Mar 18, 2011, at 6:44 AM, John Sessoms wrote: > Any time demand for electricity drops below what the nuke plant is generating > the excess electricity is used to pump water up to the reservoir on top of > the mountain.
Yes I've heard of other schemes where that is done (one in Tasmania perhaps?). To me it seems a very good way to make use of wind / solar power as it must be about the cheapest and most efficient method of large-scale energy storage. Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
