45° Cantilever Gravity Dam 🤯 scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2026/07/05/4... #dam #dams #civilengineering #hydro #hydroelectricity #pumpedhydro

So this is the analysis that I find convincing - even in the future with cheap batteries projected there is stills a big part of the 2050 graph where pumped hydro is the cheapest form of storage. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I did apply for the job of Chief Executive Officer of Great British Energy. Are all those highly paid private consultants reading my renewable energy science blog to learn what they should be telling GB Energy?😏 #GBEnergy #GreatBritishEnergy #DESNZ scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/t...

Don't conflate your units (GWh is energy but GW is power). BIGGAR's dirty half-dozen (<100GWh) are barely adequate for Scotland's pumped hydro needs. But >9100GWh would possible considering many more sites in Scotland. scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/m...

The WRONG pumped hydro - Onslow - is "Kumbaya mash" because the pumped hydro NZ actually needs is * on the North Island * 3 GW - triple the power of Onslow * 30 GWh - intra-week storage only, no need for Onslow 5000GWh inter-year. scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2023/04/12/n... #NZpol

The latest, much-inflated #price estimates Snowy 2.0 critics have come up with for the pumped #hydro project are absurd. Here are some counterpoints to balance the ledger.

PS... once again promoting the work of @scotscientist.bsky.social ... why does no one run the numbers here??

This is way beyond a joke Liebour is deliberately sabotaging Scotland.

From #Russia without love: inside Putin’s grip on our #nuclear power More than 2.5 million UK homes are powered by the Kremlin’s supply of unembargoed nuclear fuel. Sizewell B reactor runs entirely on reprocessed uranium from Russia. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

🔹 Sites spotlight: Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity🔹 Week 4 of our Sites series focuses on Pumped Storage Hydro. You can now explore live generation charts for all operational UK sites. energydashboard.co.uk/sites #UKEnergy #EnergyData #PowerGeneration

Andrew Blakers of Australian National University. “If you want serious storage, you want pumped hydro,” he says .. the UK, for one, is currently “not serious” about pumped hydro and won’t be until it constructs a 500 GWh system at Loch Ness in Scotland.

When Kate Forbes leaves us, she’ll take away the better part of the Scottish Government. Here's why China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #ScottishGovernment #SNP #ScottishParliament #ScottishEconomy #Holyrood #ScottishEnergy #LetsDoNetZero #Scots

China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland scottishscientist.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/c... #MingYang #ScotWind #Ardersier #China #Scotland #KateForbes

Snowy 2.0: Energy storage for one cent per person per day #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/...

1️⃣ "Pumped storage hydropower operation for supporting clean energy systems" This Review looks at how can power systems balance supply and demand using pumped hydro storage facilities: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

LinkedIn are freezing my "Scottish Scientist" account out because they don't like anonymous profiles, which I need.😒 X is restrictive for any free accounts and I won't pay.🙄 So here I am, to offer my free renewable energy science advice, you lucky BlueSky people! 😀