Indeed - something is often better than nothing.
In fact using wind to pump water uphill for use in pumped storage systems sounds like it could be quite handy. All the flexibility of pumped storage, while mitigating the nett energy cost of using it a little when there is wind available.
If the water could be pumped directly by the wind instead of converting to electricity feeding a pump, surely that would be more efficient. Unfortunately the pumps would have to be almost at the level of the lower reservoir.
If anyone is making one of these, please put in a spillway! Unlike at Taum Sauk where the level monitoring device failed and the dam collapsed.
Ok, not pumped storage, but not as bad as this one :
In article , Matty F scribeth thus
Well of course it doesn't they were running around in grass skirts when we had that learning curve;!..
Still didn't you have more fallout from the shenanigans from the Pacific Yankee fireworks experiments in the 50's?..
An 'err, how many dead or life expectancy shortened from Windscale ..
Essentially, zero as its too small to measure. Almost certainly less than those caused by the MMR vaccine rumpus.
Windscale was in any case not a power generation incident, but a weapons manufacturing one.
Might as well blame this
Andy
In message , "dennis@home" writes
Well I'm still alive 50 years on, living NE of Windscale at the time.
In message , hugh writes
But you glow in the dark, though, don't you
But look at what its done to your brain,..
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