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oskarkktoday at 2:23 PM1 replyview on HN

> Isn't pumped hydro severely limited by geography in many places?

Scotland seems to be a perfect place for pumped storage. I see that UK has 4 pumped storage stations, 2 in Wales, 2 in Scotland. But Scotland being quite far from most of UK's population may not be ideal if we're talking about supporting the whole country with pumped storage. It would be like 600km to the south of England.


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piva00today at 2:53 PM

HVDC would work quite well for a 600km transmission line, I don't think it needs UHVDC lines for that kind of distance.

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