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Old 09-29-2018, 03:03 AM   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by oil pan 4 View Post
They can burn coal to run generators, to power pumps to refill lake mead and claim it's renewable energy when the water goes through the rurbines lol.
The math works like this:

You take the power output by the coal generators to move the water uphill, and then add the energy gained when the water flows back downhill, and divide by the amount of coal you burned. That's how you make clean coal!
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