At the end of this excerpt from HOW INFRASTRUCTURE WORKS about Electric Mountain, a pumped-storage hydroelectricity plant in Wales, I talk about how it can do a 'black start' -- it has a diesel generator and stockpiled fuel to open the plant valves and bootstrap the UK electricity grid back up from a total shutdown -- and how I think of fossil fuels as the 'black start' for humanity, that got us to the point where we can boot up an energy system powered by renewables.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/02/beauty-of-infrastructure-electric-mountain-dinorwig-power-station-north-wales
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