"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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"'Mike'" writes:
| wrote in message
| ups.com...
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| Donc, just one one nuclear reactor may be the equivalent of 1500
| windmills at full power, but, no wind, no power and all stored power
| sent to grid would not be adequate for even our basic use.
|
| 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.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.


So every unsightly hideous wind mill has to have a mountain alongside it
does it?

Wonderful for the countryside ......... not

:-((

Mike


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