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This is amazing. To store temporary energy, you don't need a mountain range anymore. Instead, you can use nearby offshore trenches and continental shelves.

Open Google Earth. Look at the Philippines, the Arabian Peninsula, Hawaii, and eastern North Carolina. It's a perfect complement to solar energy in certain parts of the world.

Some good ideas are simple. This may be one of them.



Austria is laughing at Germany for not building reservoirs on top of hills (mountain range not needed).

I fear water based cells will be as damaging as salmon farms.


More damaging than flooding a valley? Or hollowing out a hill?




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