pumped storage

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noun

a system for generating hydroelectric power for peak periods by pumping water from a lower to a higher reservoir during low-demand periods and then releasing it during peak periods.

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Words nearby pumped storage

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How to use pumped storage in a sentence

Storage containers hold a treasure trove of mascara, lipstick, blush, and other makeup.
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A storage building became a ghostly concrete frame lit bright orange.
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With a rescue plan in place and a five-year, $4.9 million contract between Phoenix and the CDC, the planes went into storage.
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Having spent 11 hours in cold storage, she began moving around within her body bag, where mortuary staff found her alive and well.
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Skinny tie tells me that it was found in a storage locker in 2011 and auctioned for $2.1 million.
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Of course, it was the same gallon or two pumped around and around, but clear, flowing water is a sight on Mars.
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A bailee who was a cold storage keeper, stated in his receipt "all damage to property is at the owner's risk."
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Should it fail, the fluid can generally be pumped out by alternate compression of the tube and the bulb.
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All drainage from such land had to be pumped over the river bank, in many places 10 feet above the cultivated surface.
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Even the storage of gasoline in suitable tanks set down in the earth is not a nuisance.
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British Dictionary definitions for pumped storage

pumped storage

noun

(in hydroelectric systems) a method of using power at a period of low demand to pump water back up to a high storage reservoir so that it can be released to generate electricity at a period of peak demand

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