Comment on Elements of Renewable Energy
gandalf_der_12te@slrpnk.net 2 months agoyes, and more importantly, normal Hydro plants could be updated to release water at selected times, to create “on-demand power”. The energy is stored in the water behind the dam. So conventional, already-existing hydro dams can perform a two-sided function: Storing water, and to release it on-demand. Like a battery that is refilled by nature.
bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
AFAIK, that’s exactly what storage power plants do …wikipedia.org/…/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity