Research teams are looking into the possibilities of using superpits and paired rural dams as alternative batteries
Australia still has a large agricultural industry , and all of these properties have dams, for irrigation of crops and for watering livestock. Around the various dams, there is a lot of space. What if these dams could be used to generate and store electricity? Floating solar panels to reduce evaporation and paired dams could provide the power to run the homestead, or even be supplied to rural towns. They could be alternative batteries.
Although relative cost will be the final decider, the ideal site would be paired dams, not too far apart , with a relative height difference creating a slope of at least 17%. Pairing with a river would also be advantageous, but most Australian inland rivers do not have a constant flow. The water would need the opportunity to flow downstream to drive a turbine, then excess power would need to be available to pump the water back up for storage.
“Like any new technology, it’s sort of inefficient, so it has scope to get better in the future. We’re sort of jury-rigging pumps from other applications and running them in reverse to generate power,” Dr Gilmore says. Innovative Australian farmers have been solving problems by jury rigging and making do for a long time. It will be great to see them run their own on farm experimentation and research with this idea.
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