[Greenbuilding] Abandoned mine turned into a pumped storage system...

[john daglish]

12 Insights on Germany’s Energiewende
A briefing paper from the NGO agora-energiewende on the tasks for the
energiewende - German energy revolution,  renewable energy wind +
solar + peak chp et heat stores, variable elec/heat gas/biogas,  And a
good discussion on the need for restructuring the electricity market
to finance ongoing renewables and supporting flexible plant.
http://www.agora-energiewende.de/fileadmin/downloads/publikationen/Agora_12_Insights_on_Germanys_Energiewende_web.pdf


John Daglish
Paris, France


On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Corwyn <corwyn at midcoast.com> wrote:
>
> On 2/23/2013 6:28 PM, John Straube wrote:
>>I too would keep an open mind on this.
>
> They make it sound like this is a problem only with renewable energy, when,
> in fact, it is a concern with all types of power generation.  The down time
> for solar generators is at most a few day, and usually just a few hours.  A
> nuclear plant is generally down for months to refuel.  And storage
> requirements go up based on time required.  Pump storage is reasonable
> proposition, I think.  The bugaboos are where you get the water and where
> you put it.  A mine and a slag mountain, and captured water, sound like
> reasonable choices to me, but I don't know any details.
>
> Thank You Kindly,
>
> Corwyn
>
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