On 5/17/2016 7:53 PM, michael adams wrote:
"Mike Tomlinson" wrote in message
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"This is because the two reservoirs are linked by one of Britain's biggest
post-war industrial projects: the Dinorwig pumped storage power station,
hidden within this mountain. It is effectively a monster battery: power is
stored by pumping water from Llyn Peris to Marchlyn Mawr at night, then
generated by letting it flow back down at times of peak demand"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/05...tric_mountain/
You do realise of course that that project was initiated by Lefty**** Socialists ?
It was a license to print money. Which of course is why it was snapped
up by Americans when it was flogged off.