03-25-2008, 12:21 AM
[cool][#0000ff]When those guys are working the shells and the peas you gotta watch real careful. They are shifty.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]IN THEORY...it will work. The cost of power at night, to pump the water uphill, is cheaper than during the daytime. Then, when they let 'er rip downhill, they generate enough (more expensive) power to make a profit on what they pumped uphill the night before.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]NOW...that is only after they amortize all of the bajillions of dollars they put out to build that wacko thing in the first place. They probably want to get taxpayers to cover that...or sell a bond or something. I doubt that the president of the power company is willing to front the whole shebang on speculation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sounds like "gummint" thinking.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]IN THEORY...it will work. The cost of power at night, to pump the water uphill, is cheaper than during the daytime. Then, when they let 'er rip downhill, they generate enough (more expensive) power to make a profit on what they pumped uphill the night before.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]NOW...that is only after they amortize all of the bajillions of dollars they put out to build that wacko thing in the first place. They probably want to get taxpayers to cover that...or sell a bond or something. I doubt that the president of the power company is willing to front the whole shebang on speculation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sounds like "gummint" thinking.[/#0000ff]
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