The article in this post is written by yet another dunce who doesn’t know the difference between energy and power. That single generating station would fill 100 MWh of capacity in 37.5 minutes.
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JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year agoto put a 3 power day buffer in place
Hydro is used to smooth out peaks and troughs in the power supply. You’re not even close to getting a useful estimate.
The fifth largest hydroelectric power station in the UK is 160MW
100MW by 2030 is a pretty big deal.
rbesfe@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Dum@reddthat.com 1 year ago
I agree you need much less capacity because you’d usually just want to even out fluctuations, but I think the general gist of the comment is still true: you need just 2,5x the amount of water to produce the same amount of energy. The article says very little about the liquid, and very little about why this would enable them to build this capacity much quicker. A little more data would be nice.
JoBo@feddit.uk 1 year ago
More information is alway s useful. But it’s pretty obviously quicker to build because it only needs to handle 40% of the liquid and it’s not on a mountain.