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Pumped-Storage Hydroelectricity  and AWE

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November 10, 2020, post by Dave Santos
Synergistic Match between Pumped-storage Hydroelectricity and Spidermill Kite Network AWES Concept

Pumped-storage hydroelectricity usually involves a large open water reservoir serving as the storage medium. Reservoir topographic geometry and low-intensity space-use factors are an ideal match for  scalable radially-symmetric kite energy kite networks called SpiderMills*, well-suited to operate over a hydropower reservoir expanse. A Spidermill anchored from surrounding elevated shore line could fly up by circle-tow-pumping into upper-wind, to harvest abundant kinetic energy to massively pump water back up and around the hydroelectric cycle, as a quasi perpetuum mobile.

Multiple urgent problems thus cancel out in conceptual synergy- Wind Energy Intermittency is solved by Hydro-Storage; precious water is conserved; hydro-electric capacity is greatly enhanced.
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* As coined and advocated by the late Dr Wubbo Ockels, first Dutch Astronaut, founder of TUDelft AWE Program.
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