The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109864   Message #2300427
Posted By: Teribus
29-Mar-08 - 12:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Lights Out for an Hour, Please...
Subject: RE: BS: Lights Out for an Hour, Please...
LTS is quite right, the exercise is pointless, electricity produced for the "grid" cannot be stored. There is a hydro power station in Wales that generates electricity by running water from one lake to another to provide power at peak times. It then uses the electricity produced off-peak to pump the water back up the mountain to the lake it originally came from so that the whole exercise can be repeated next peak period.