"Grimly Curmudgeon" wrote in message
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We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "TMC" saying
something like:

Why does no one mention HEP as a renewable source of energy any more?

****ing NIMBYs and eco-conservationist ******s, that's why.

Some interesting responses and have done a bit of googling.
There are more pumped storage schemes than I realised already in operation

Regarding NIMBYs and eco-conservationist I would ban them from using
electricity unless they were prepared to be affected by its generation

Possibly the way to go would be lots of small scale mill type schemes which
should be reasonably productive in the Mill towns of the north and big
rivers in the south.