• LoveSausage@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Pump water to height when it’s windy , let it down when it’s not. Load balanced. Not so hard eh?

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      5 months ago

      Sure that would work in theory but you would struggle to get any kind of capacity with that system, and of course reservoirs are actually quite damaging to the environment, since you have to flood large areas of land.