Powering up: UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'
by Jillian Ambrose from Environment | The Guardian on (#5DX0R)
Engineers explore using gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity
Hundreds of hills across the UK could be transformed into renewable energy batteries" through a pioneering hydropower system embedded underground.
A team of engineers have developed a system that adapts one of the oldest forms of energy storage, hydropower, to store and release electricity from gentle slopes rather than requiring steep dam walls and mountains.
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