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Do the math on how much energy you can store-- the volumes required for meaningful amounts of energy are just mind boggling. So you don't just need elevation, you need thousand of acres of valley or crater that you can flood and people tend to get a little testy about geoengineering at those scales these days.



Meh? Couple hundred meters of elevation and a hundred acres runs a city for day. Source - the city I live in which has this exact setup.


Indeed, but that is the scale you have to work at for it to be interesting... on the order of a billion gallons of water, if I assume it's 10m deep.




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