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minus-squarenaturalgasbad@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoThe real question isn’t “why not build pumped hydro” but “why not build pumped hydro in Shanghai.” Look at an elevation map of Shanghai and the surrounding provinces: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui. They’re not exactly “mountainous.”
minus-squareMonkderZweite@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·10 months agoThen make holes. Pump there.
minus-squarenaturalgasbad@lemmy.caOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·10 months agoAt <25m above sea level?
minus-squarethallamabond@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·10 months agohttps://www.zoompumps.com/article/the-power-of-the-pump-with-a-head-of-100-meters/ Hey you there! Stop acting like pumping water is some mystery alchemy yet to be phlebotomized out of the nether realm.
The real question isn’t “why not build pumped hydro” but “why not build pumped hydro in Shanghai.”
Look at an elevation map of Shanghai and the surrounding provinces: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui. They’re not exactly “mountainous.”
Then make holes. Pump there.
At <25m above sea level?
https://www.zoompumps.com/article/the-power-of-the-pump-with-a-head-of-100-meters/
Hey you there! Stop acting like pumping water is some mystery alchemy yet to be phlebotomized out of the nether realm.