What happens to your battery when you are in the middle of a drought and your "battery" doesn't have enough water in it to operate as a battery?
You don't need to use a river for pumped storage, you can even have a (mostly) closed-state solution that pumps water back and forth between two holding tanks.
You don't need to use a river for pumped storage, you can even have a (mostly) closed-state solution that pumps water back and forth between two holding tanks.