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Old 19-01-2007, 10:23 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article ,
"'Mike'" writes:


| Please explain how this power is stored for future use.

You run a pump, which pushes water up to a reservoir at the top of
a mountain, which then can be used to drive a turbine when needed.
There has been exactly such a site in Wales for decades.
Fiendishly cunning, these Welshmen.


Ha! No reactor then - just a donkey pulling on the rope. That's more
like it ;o)