Pumped Hydro Soon to Go Into Its Second Century
These people claim:
An American startup just unlocked hydropower from dry land — with no rivers or dams.
In a radical rethinking of water-based energy, an American startup has developed a closed-loop hydropower system that works without a natural river or dam. It uses gravity, elevation, and recycled water to generate continuous electricity — even in dry, landlocked regions.
This is called “pumped-storage hydroelectricity” or “pumped hydro,” and it’s been commercially available since the 1930s, at which point, I suppose, it could have been called “radical.” To this day, almost a century later, it represents the vast majority of energy storage on this planet.
