Seriously, Kiwis? I turn my back and they are scamming you again? Onslow pumped hydro is WRONG for NZ's pumped hydro needs. WRONG island (south - NORTH needed) WRONG oversized (inter-year - INTRAWEEK only) WRONG underpowered (only 1GW - 3GW needed) #NZpol #NZenergy newsroom.co.nz/2026/07/31/b...

Big-name Kiwi investors buy into world’s largest pumped storage project Lake Onslow

Sir Stephen Tindall, Selwyn Pellett and Michael Stiassny want to give NZ a chance at renewable energy security. ‘We need big projects that inspire people, not kicking the can down the road by importin...

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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...

The poodle running Great British Energy

Great British Energy permanent CEO appointed Dan McGrail is just the very 🐩 to short-change Great British Energy, siphoning money off for the nuclear power rip-off, the deadly carbon capture & …

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The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2mo ago

EXCLUSIVE: GB Energy is handing out millions of pounds in taxpayers' cash to private consultants to tell it "how to do its job", The National can reveal

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

New Zealand’s Battery Project: Onslow pumped hydro is too big, too expensive and too stupid

Dry years problem solved, more wind power, North Island pumped hydro – New Zealand 100% renewables without Onslow New Zealand exports hydroelectric power from the South Island to the North Is…

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Krystal Chandelier@krystalchandelier.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Can you say "Dunning-Kruger effect"? Seriously, this thumb of a man is completely brain broken and medically stupid if he still thinks that the LNG terminal is a good idea, and pumped hydro is "Kumbaya mush". #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

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.

Claims of huge new blow-outs to the Snowy 2.0 bill are just plain wrong

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.

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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/...

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 nuclear fuel and western countries have found themselves trapped in long-term contracts

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🔹 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.

Chris Baraniuk@chrisbaraniuk.com · 6mo ago

UK-based high density pumped hydro firm RheEnergise has successfully generated electricity for the first time - they tell me they hit their full output capacity of 500 kilowatts. Here's my piece from late last year which discusses their tech: share.google/gomKZ5pZ4aEG...

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

Scottish Scientist@scotscientist.bsky.social · 10mo ago

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

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

China’s Big Wind is welcome to Scotland

Ming Yang announces major investment plan to supercharge the UK’s path to clean energy and lower bills Date: 2025.10.10 ● Ming Yang Smart Energy plans to invest up to £1.5 billion in Scotland and c…

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Younity@younityuk.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Scotland is set to become home to the UK’s largest wind turbine factory! 🌬️ Chinese firm Ming Yang plans to invest £1.5bn in a massive wind turbine plant at Ardersier, Scotland, creating up to 1,500 jobs by 2028. The project could power a new offshore wind ecosystem right here in the UK 💨🌍

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! 😀