MAKING WATER WORK FOR YOU
Water at height is the best battery there is. We’ve known this for a long time, of course, and the prime sites have long been dammed. But since the Save Manapouri campaign, increasing resistance to major dam proposals has seen them permanently shelved (although a cynic might point out that the protesters all expect to go home and indulge in unfettered electricity consumption).
The truth is that you cannot generate electricity without making some impact; the trick is to minimize that impact. Micro-hydro and pumped storage have the potential
