Comment on 'No-water' hydropower turns England's hills into green and pleasant batteries
Qualanqui@lemmy.nz 10 months agoIf you have the system always running most of the cartage back to the top could be handled by the siphoning effect, like draining a washing machine or siphoning patrol.
You’d need energy to get it started but after that it should keep siphoning as long as there’s liquid to siphon.
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 10 months ago
I don’t understand how that would work in this case; if this is true, I think I’d need to see a diagram.
My understanding is that they use energy to pump the liquid up during times of excess, and release it to generate energy when there’s more demand.