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To make solar power viable, we need a solution for overnight energy storage.

Batteries are complicated.

Do you know what isn't? Water go up. stonks-up

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[–] LanyrdSkynrd@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

There's also a version of this where you divert water at a regular hydro plant into a storage canal. It still uses pumps, but it doesn't need a separate turbine and a mountain.