With climate change looming, it seems so completely backwards to go back to using it again.

Is it coal miners pushing to keep their jobs? Fear of nuclear power? Is purely politically motivated, or are there genuinely people who believe coal is clean?

Edit, I will admit I was ignorant to the usage of coal nowadays.

Now I’m more depressed than when I posted this

  • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Pumped water is about the only practical gravity battery, but it has limitations.

    1. It can only be built in a few geographical locations.
    2. This tends to limit it’s overall capacity unless you’re Norway or Switzerland.
    3. It requires flooding an area to make a storage lake and so has a high environmental impact.
    4. Building power stations inside mountains is difficult and expensive.

    So it’s great stuff, but I don’t think it’s going to be the backbone of any storage solution we have.