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philip238 on June 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Way Humans Get Electricity Is About to Change

Some hydroelectric power plants do that, but storage is finite and it's not amazingly efficient.

netcan on June 23, 2015 [–]

If you already have a dam, why would a day or two's worth of water be troublesome?

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