Storing Energy on The Grid

Submitted by Jur on Tue, 07/26/2011 - 17:22

This video describes a unique plan to store energy. Using the water in an abandoned iron mine the proposal is to pump water up into a holding reservoir using electricity when it is inexpensive and then use this same water to drive generators creating electricity when it is expensive.

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