>The rest of the world just builds a dam, creates a new lake, and moves on.
Your wording implies this is better than the flywheel solution - can you elaborate for a layman?
Your wording implies this is better than the flywheel solution - can you elaborate for a layman?
We have mountains (Wales, Lake District, Scotland), but the likelihood of creating lakes for hydro use is close to zero. And you would need many, many, flywheels to substitute for one lake.
Yes, because they'd be lochs, not lakes :-)
We already have some (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruachan_Power_Station) and are talking about building more (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-445...).
[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@50.514101,12.8731705,3067m/data...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markersbach_Pumped_Storage_Pow...
Or to put it another way, Britain has a long history of building water capacity for British cities.
Scandalous! /s