Question: One method of meeting the extra electric power demand at peak periods is to pump some water from a large body of water (such as

One method of meeting the extra electric power demand at peak periods is to pump some water from a large body of water (such as a lake) to a water reservoir at a higher elevation at times of low demand and to generate electricity at times of high demand by letting this water run down and rotate a turbine (i.e., convert the electric energy to potential energy and then back to electric energy). For an energy storage capacity of 5 x 106 kWh, determine the minimum amount of water that needs to be stored at an average elevation (relative to the ground level) of 75 m.

One method of meeting the extra electric

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