Originally Posted by Ted Remington
Or we could just use that excess energy to pump water back up to a reservoir so that at night it could be used via gravity to generate electricity. Potential energy keeps forever, basically.

Ive seen some entrepreneurs plans to do that all along the west coast of Ireland. turning a shedload of valleys into resevoir/generation stations. We have some of the best wind and wave generation porential in the world - main peoblems being lack of existing infrastructure and lack of capital - particularly now.

The sheer volumne of land required would make it cost prohibitive, whereas a bunch of these 40 ft containers would be far less physically intrusive, plus you would be able to store them at any location, rather that building the infrastructure to only suit the geography.

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