Posted on 08/14/2023 9:11:43 AM PDT by Signalman
ROTFL! Demonicrat logic.
That’s the only way their moronic idea would work, in libiot alt-universe.
What’s a PE? Professional engineer?
Yes.
And the third law, you can’t get out of the game.
Heck; you can order one NOW!!!
It’s NOT so great when your clock strikes 13.
Other workers, driving ICE, will go on strike for free gas.
It’s basically a way for flatlanders to do something like this:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pumped+reservoir+energy&ia=web
You have to much solar capacity.
It’s your duty to share with the less fortunate.
Edward’s last movie.
So, at present, the only solution is nuclear
The Dumbing Down of America on display.
Pumped storage works well....../
“The Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectric underground power station in Marion County, just west of Chattanooga in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The facility is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Water is pumped from Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River at the base of Raccoon Mountain to a storage reservoir built at the top of the mountain. The reservoir at the top of the mountain covers 528 acres (214 ha), with a dam that is 230 feet (70 m) high and 5,800 feet (1,800 m) long, the largest rock-fill dam ever built by TVA. It takes 28 hours to fill the upper reservoir. During periods of high electric demand, water can be released from the reservoir through a tunnel drilled through the center of the mountain, driving electric generators in an underground hydroelectric plant123.
The storage reservoir gives the Raccoon Mountain plant a tremendous amount of flexibility to balance the load and supply on the TVA system. The power used for pumping provides needed load during low-demand hours while providing power during peak-demand hours”
The surplus power for the pumping is provided by the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant and possibly the Watts Bar nuclear Plant located just up stream from Nickajack.
You’re right. That device has just as much a chance of working as a Perpetual Motion machine does.
“The state is widely regarded as the most green energy-driven state, but it is also infamous for its rolling blackouts”
That’s cause and effect you morons, not just some coincidence.
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