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Old 20-01-2007, 11:56 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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"'Mike'" writes:
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| As an add on as Nick is getting his knickers in a twist, surplus power as
| generated, cannot be stored or bottled and used later. The water pump
| contraption is limited to the volume of water and the time factor. Very good
| and useful BUT, electricity is not being stored just the potential energy of
| the falling water which has been pumped up with the 'surplus electricity' at
| the time of generation.

Do I bother to point out that electricity, in the sense that you are
using it there, is a physical fiction? Nah. It's not worth it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.