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riffraffyesterday at 7:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

Hungary is flat as hell, there's nowhere to build enough hydro storage.

But yeah batteries would be nice.


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dofmyesterday at 7:33 PM

AFAIK the mountains are about as high as Wales? It looks like there's a 600MW storage scheme in the planning stages. That's about a third of the capacity of Wales's largest system (which is the biggest in Europe) and about twice the capacity of the second system.

It's a meaningful contribution I would have thought.

JeremyNTyesterday at 7:47 PM

You can do low(er) head pumped hydro storage [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...