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Comment by rcme

2 years ago

Why don't they just pump water up hill at night? That would be a much better use of the electricity.

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obviouslynotme  2 years ago

There are already many energy storage systems in place and many more being installed even now. The problem is that energy storage and recovery is a hard problem. Anyone who solves it will be rich overnight.

rurban  2 years ago

Texas is like Germany. No hills (unless you count the waste disposal hills, where you cannot pump up water)

  • stormfather  2 years ago

    I live in the hill country in Texas, so I would disagree there.

    • lukevp  2 years ago

      I’m from the hill country… but that’s just a small area near Austin. Houston, SA, DFW, etc. are all very flat.