Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoFor states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down10
arrow-up149arrow-down1message-squareFor states on the coast with excess solar energy why don't they invest in water desalination and pump that water back upstream?Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 14 hours agomessage-square33fedilink
minus-squarevisor841@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-210 hours agoTransporting large quantities of electricity isn’t easy, you have to have large enough interconnects to handle the energy you’re moving around.
minus-squarehendrik@palaver.p3x.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-29 hours agoEntire Europe is connected. Sure we’re still missing quite some cables to get the regeneratives to where they’re needed. And I suppose this doesn’t cover the UK. But it’s no problem to move around quite some energy across parts of a continent.
Transporting large quantities of electricity isn’t easy, you have to have large enough interconnects to handle the energy you’re moving around.
Entire Europe is connected. Sure we’re still missing quite some cables to get the regeneratives to where they’re needed. And I suppose this doesn’t cover the UK. But it’s no problem to move around quite some energy across parts of a continent.