pumping

The article is pumping air into a non-issue.

So pumping some water is a way to not totally lose the energy produced during that time.

The price difference can be substantial more than making up for the cost of the pumping and subsequent re-generation.

Siphons do play a big role in getting water over some heights, but there is a lot of pumping too.

A fifth of energy usage in California is water related, and a fifth of that is for pumping, over 10TWh anually.

This makes more money than selling the nuclear/coal/NG generated electricity directly even though there is some loss from the whole pumping operation.

When Chernobyl had its meltdown, they weren't pumping up to 400 tons of radioactive waste into an ocean every single day [2].

It's small comfort to plants and animals where Nestle is pumping, that golf courses hundreds of miles away are using more water.

Not a bad idea actually - I have considered just pumping out a game every few weeks.

Perhaps that would help bring the power usage down to the same level as pumping the water in from the north of the state.

It's not FDA approved and probably made in lab with the same stringent quality controls as the clandestine ones in China pumping out similar things.

So, if I'm in someone's Fiat Chryslermobile, and they're pumping gas, I can flash the vehicle's firmware from the passenger seat?

Pumped storage has the same "greenness" profile as the whole grid had when the pumping was happening, minus the efficiency loss from the round-trip conversion.

That photo is next to the parking lot where he "found an empty lot where [he] could safely continue the experiment" and then "they cut the Jeep’s brakes, leaving [him] frantically pumping the pedal as the 2-ton SUV slid uncontrollably into a ditch" Not the highway.

Pumping upward typically happens when the renewables are overproducing and the (controllably) variable power plants are idling.