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'Water up mountains' has been a preferred energy store for a long time, and very effective it is too. Plenty of weight in water, plenty of PE.
So when you have an excess of any energy, solar, wind, whatever, or just a limited supply of 24/7 energy, you use it to pump water up hill.
Then when you get a surge in demand, you open the taps and run the turbines.
Simple engineering, effective solution.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: Water up mountains' has been a preferred energy store for a long time, and very effective it is too.
Viz. the Dinorwic pumped storage scheme, with which I was intimately and rather dangerously associated - as a one time photogrammetrist I was 'volunteered' to go into the old mineshafts around the planned tunnel with a pair of calibrated survey cameras on a sledge and photograph long abandoned shafts that were deemed too dangerous to send a surveyor down, and subsequently pull the plates up on a stereo-comparator to see if there were any side shafts.
The this was in the mid seventies, and the Dinorwic scheme is still working successfully today.
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No - north Wales, inland from Caernarfon.
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OK. I thought there was one in the south too, but could be mistaken. Makes sense up north though, more mountainous.
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it keeps playing
"I bought"
"I have bought"
over and over again.
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A what? Is that some kind of parrot? Like one the Flintstones use to play music?
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Probably the start of a round-table disc-cusssion.
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I hope at least, it does replay the broken memories
It does not solve my Problem, but it answers my question
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Well as they say, records were made to be broken.
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This sounds like something I've heard before.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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... and did not see the light yet.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Maybe you out to switch your view?
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Shorted out and completely left in the dark.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Shocking!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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And not true. I just 3D printed two arms for a model of this thing[^]. Each arm has a particle cannon and a medium laser. That should shed some light on things.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Awesome print, that ought to brighten your day!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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It was Griff, our light of wisdom, who wanted to get destructive.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Just try a WAMP then, much better
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and never really clicked with any of them.
(The preceding is actually only half true.)
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You've finally snapped, though?
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Snap out of it man!
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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Try to see the big picture.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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I shutter to think what might develop.
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