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elevated weight as storage for generator? | 26 comments (26 topical, editorial)
Re: elevated weight as storage for generator? (3.00 / 0) (#6)
by nanotech (darrin(dot)moore(at)gmail(dot)com) on Thu Sep 15th, 2005 at 05:39:00 PM MST
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Grand Coulee Dam in Eastern Washington state does this also.  When they have an abundance of water, they pump it from the main resevoir up into the coulee.  When the river starts dropping and they lose a little of headway on their resevoir, they let the water stored in the coulee plummet back down, turning the pumps into generators in the process!!  :)
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elevated weight as storage for generator? | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial)

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