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NickB79

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3. Dam-stored pumped hydro is difficult on the Great Plains, though

Reply to longship (Reply #1)

Sun Dec 29, 2013, 01:35 AM

Dec 2013

The open, flat nature of the central US that allows the wind to blow so hard and steady and earn the title "the Saudi Arabia of wind" also makes pumped hydro via artificial lakes impractical.

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Hydraulic Energy Storage - Another Way to Use Gravity [View all] kristopher Dec 2013 OP

Well, I don't think that's going to work so well. longship Dec 2013 #1

Dam-stored pumped hydro is difficult on the Great Plains, though NickB79 Dec 2013 #3

Really? I seem to remember lots of artificial lakes in the midwest. AZCat Dec 2013 #4

Interesting! cprise Dec 2013 #2