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consider the implications for a post scarcity future (slrpnk.net)

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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 32 points 2 months ago

We need natural batteries like solar power lifting water from a lake into a reservoir so that when we need that energy and the sun isn't making it, released water does

[-] ProvableGecko@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes this exists and it's called pumped storage hydroelectricity

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I did some work at a place called The hollow mountain that does this. But seeing as it looked like an underground James Bond bad guy base and I was a rope access mook in a boiler suit, I felt like I could die at any moment by tuxedo clad hero.
It wasn't solar they used to power pump the water back up though. They just, hmm I want to say, bought cheap electricity when no one was using it.