dennis@home wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
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well with a typical power station being somewhere upwards of a Gw, and
our total energy needs as a country running at an estimated 300GW, I
cant see those making a huge difference to anything.

I can, hydro electric are easy to control and respond quickly.
Run them at the bare minimum and you can turn them up to smooth supply
during peaks.
Pretty much like the pumped hydro stations but not as big.

ISTR that Dinorwig could run from zero to full power in about 2 minutes.
Any hydro scheme should be able to do that too.

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