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Do the math. Figure out how much water you need to lift and how high to supply a day of 3TW of power.



My numbers tell me North America has 1 PWh of storage capacity just for gas alone. This isn't even counting all the EWhs that we haven't extracted yet or the unlimited amount we could produce by using excess energy and turning it into hydrogen or methane.


Are you suggesting we store the energy in gas?




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