It'll be interesting to see if if PSH ever really takes off, or if it really does get left in the dust by batteries and other things.
It'll be interesting to see if if PSH ever really takes off, or if it really does get left in the dust by batteries and other things.
It's cheap, effective, scalable, and highly efficient.
It's also got limited sites and localized environmental impacts.
Where you been hiding?
Battery - 0.7%
Compressed Air - 0.5%
Concentrated Solar Power Storage - 1.3% (which doesn't always exactly count)
Flywheels - 0.2%
Pumped Storage - 97.4%
You can also see that the average operational year for pumped storage is 1974, not anytime recent. You could weight the years by capacity, but most plants are pretty big, and it shouldn't change it too much. Also, pumped storage capacity only totals 21.6GW.
As for where I've been, I've just been stupidly busy. I keep meaning to jump back in, but I never seem to have the time.