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You don't need alpine heights for pumped hydro. There is a 120 MW plant in Geesthacht near Hamburg which uses a height of 83m.

Nowadays one would build the "lake" less ugly, but it would need even more room then. That's the main problem with pumped hydro: it uses an awful lot of landscape.


by Katrin  on Sun Aug 5th, 2012 at 11:30:45 PM BST
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Aug 7th, 2012 at 07:33:51 AM EST
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