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Letter: When glaciers have gone it's too late to use valleys

Published 5 September 2018

From Perry Bebbington, Kimberley, Nottinghamshire, UK

Erik Foxcroft suggests using vacant glacial valleys as water reservoirs for pumped storage hydropower (Letters, 18 August). By the time the glaciers have retreated enough to make this viable I think it will be a bit too late to think about such storage.

Issue no. 3194 published 8 September 2018

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