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Do I need to look up for you how much pumped-hydro storage is already online? Or list a dozen other technologies also under large-scale construction? You could look that up yourself, if you cared.


Which valley are you going to drown? Hydro being pretty much at capacity...


Hydro storage is a completely different animal than native hydro generation.

A reservoir for the latter requires a river collecting water from a large area watershed, and a dam lower down backing water up the river course.

Hydro storage requires only an elevated basin, and a pipe (penstock) leading up to it from a ready source of water -- even groundwater -- no watershed needed. Such basins are legion, and filling them typically discomfits no one.


Given the capacity needed (TWhs), such basins are going to be massive, and will drown valleys.


No valleys, no drownding.




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