This is the best entry point for this slimmed-down second series of three posts. The other two are supporting material (Part 1 covers the contour-canal reservoir scheme, and Part 2 looks at hydrodynamics). Summary The goal: provide large-scale, long-duration storage Read More
Encapsulated Pumped Storage, Series 2, Part 2: Hydrodynamics
In the last post, I described a fast, inexpensive way of building evaporation-proof water storage on gently sloping terrain. One risk of building a pumped storage solution around this method is that the penstocks will tend to be long, compared Read More