The Future of Pumped Hydro

The concept of pumped hydro, just because it is, I think, the largest sort of legacy storage system out there. We're leveraging tech that exists today, motors and inverters, gravity building a structure. And at most of that's local, right? You can do most of that local. So we use material science to avoid for composite blocks. These are concrete. We can use soil and waste materials, even better, coal ash and other things to make these blocks. There's a very interesting both economics and sustainability aspect there.

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