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		bryanlarsen 36 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The time has finally come for geothermal energy Pumped hydro just requires a lake at the bottom of a slope. Unlike hydro generation, it doesn't require flow. Here's almost a million locations suitable for pumped hydro: https://re100.eng.anu.edu.au/global/

defrost 36 days ago [–]

Two farm dams at a minimum, one at either end of a slope.

You can serve a small town of 500 or so people (plus tourists) with a mini systems for ~ $8 million (AU)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332157

bryanlarsen 35 days ago | [–]

And that location probably wasn't on the ANU map, meaning there were are far more than 1 million suitable locations.

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