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Stick it to mountain climbers by capping mountain tops with lakes to generate power. A man made volcano-like crater at the top, filled with rain. Windmills could be put at the edges of the crater if there's enough wind to warrant it. Higher altitude/higher wind speed.
Pumped Storage
http://www.darvill....altenerg/pumped.htm
[DrCurry, Oct 21 2004]
Electric Mountain
http://www.rps.psu.edu/cause03/four.html
Baked, even has wind turbines in the background [suctionpad, Oct 21 2004]
[link]
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Why didn't you climb the mountain?
Because there's a power station at the top. |
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Mountains are very nice how they currently are, thank you. |
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Baked, possibly Widely Baked. Absent the windmills, this is commonly done to augment local power grids. One scheme I saw involved using off-peak power to pump water up the mountain to fill the lake, which then served as a reserve battery against peak demands. |
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My "reserve battery" would maximize gravity as the energy stored hence leading to more efficient use of land. No more raping of fragile tarn ecosystems. No more senseless mountain climbing casualties. |
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It seems they'd fill with ice, being so cold and such. That being the case, it wouldn't be any different than what's already up there. |
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Some of the extra power produced from the added elevation could be used for melting the snow in the higher and/or less Equatorial mountains. Lower and/or more Equatorial mountains wouldn't have this problem. |
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Do I get a second vote to fishbone [goomba]'s annotations? |
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Hydroelectric power, both from naturally occurring sources such as lakes, rivers etc., and from man-made reservoirs is widely baked. This goes for "reserve battery" peak-shaving systems as well as baseload energy generation. Windmills and wind turbines are also widely baked, including on high ground. There is nothing particularly new in placing them close to each other. |
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Incidentally it will take 334MJ of energy to melt 1 ton of water ice, while a 1km drop will release only 10MJ of potential energy. |
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Poor !...... Thats all I can say...... |
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This is not a baked concept. There are no mountains whose tops have been blown off to be replaced by a man-made lake. |
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Baked or not, the fish have spoken, I believe. |
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Beg to differ [goomba]. See [link]. |
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Dinowrig was mentioned in the first link. Thanks just the same. |
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Back in the 1960's, my grandfather worked on a project in New Zealand wherein a tunnel was bored up from the base of a mountain, in to the lake at the top with a hydroelectric at the base to generate electricity from the water drained from the lake. As I recall, the water discharged in to or near a place called "Deep Cove". The system was capable of pumping water back up to the lake (Manapouri, I think). |
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I don't get the windmill part. And I don't get the "stick it to mountain climbers" part either. Are you saying that there will no longer be a top of the mountain to climb to? |
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Yes [half]. The peak will have been removed, the result resembling a volcano. The mountain, having been obviously summited in the past, will lose it's allure to would be height heros. |
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It is far simpler (and already common) to create "forebay" reservoirs below the main dam, where water fills up by day, driving hydro generators when power demand is high. At night, the water is pumped out of the forebay back up to the main reservoir, when power demands are low. Examples in California: San Luis, Oroville, Trinity / Shasta. |
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