Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ? Date: 8 Dec 2024 04:17:02 GMT Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net t1NQ0eGDxCSMRlvEoIE1hAUEQuqGft394Ou5ojvKhhDZJHh4f/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZqsqptKfRWVi+VVvB2NwI1YHJ7s= sha256:iFDamUzsVeTlZRx4deQgNRdEThPGMpP+tdBPWZVpl0M= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61928 On Sat, 7 Dec 2024 21:10:03 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > That is essentially the physics behind pumped (hydroelectric) storage, > which achieves about 75% turn round efficiency. If you consider the size > of the the lakes involved and the amount of energy that may be > stored...you sigh and realise its better to build a nuclear power > station that doesn't need the storage in the first place. > > It works, but without suitable geography the build cost is phenomenal. https://www.wbur.org/news/2016/12/02/northfield-mountain-hydroelectric- station The company I worked for at the time also was a distributor for Trabon lubrication systems. I didn't have much involvement in that part of the business but I did a tag-along with the crew installing the system prior to the station going operational. It was impressive but it was also eerie knowing you were in a cavern under a lake. I was jealous. They had mult plants. iple workstations with every Rigid tool known to man, all shiny and new. It was designed to load balance the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant. Vermont Yankee was up for license renewal but the state opposed it. The power company won the suit against the state but decommissioned it in 2014 since it couldn't compete with gas fired plants. It sounded like a good idea 50 years ago. Damn, that means I was wandering around the plant 50 years ago. How time goes by.