Informative Essay On Pumped Storage

Electricity is made commonly from fossil fuels. But it can be made from many other things called alternate energy resources. We're going to tell you about an alternate energy resource called pumped storage. Pumped storage plants bring in water from a body of water, run it up a hill through tubes to a reservoir during the night. And then it releases the water downhill during the day through a series of tubes that have turbines inside them. When the water turns the turbines, that are connected to a generator that has coil in them, it creates electricity. The fuel used for pumped storage is water. It is safe to harvest and transport because it's just plain old H2O. It's not harmful or explosive. The fuel is not expensive to harvest because if you have a body of water then you put the pumped storage plant by the water and that's it, the water is simply run through tubes and returned to be reused later. There is H2O in all different forms. So if we were to use all liquid water we could still find H2O in the air or frozen. It's just simply hydrogen and oxygen which makes this fuel renewable. …show more content…
Coal is a fossil fuel and fossil fuels are commonly used so the equipment isn't as expensive. The pumped storage process is a safe process because it doesn't involve any dangerous substances. Making large scale electricity this way is kind of 50/50 in efficiency. It takes more electricity to carry water from the lake up to the reservoir than what releasing the water creates. But it can create electricity during the time of highest need. They can store the electricity during off hours and it can be released during peak hours. One bad thing about pumped storages though is that it can't be used anywhere on the earth. For pumped storage you need a large body of water and not a lot of places have access to