To Boost Renewable Energy, Australia Looks to Water and Gravity

Fires aided by climate change wrecked havoc last year across Australia.

Now there’s a chance that water could help save the country from an even worse fate—and not just as a way to extinguish future blazes.

An Australian utility has drawn up plans that would marry the country’s renewable energy power with a decades-old trick of hydro engineering. Read more: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-boost-renewable-energy-australia-looks-to-water-and-gravity/