This was a rather surreal end to our weekend wilderness adventure: wandering past 3 buzzing...

This was a rather surreal end to our weekend wilderness adventure: wandering past 3 buzzing power converters rated at over 100MW that power pumps to pump river water back up hill for energy storage. Funny to think this is the most scalable and cheap electric battery the world has thought of to date.

Location
Sierra National ForestNorth Fork of the King's RiverLower Jumps
Photographer
John Hovell
Date taken