To demonstrate how much less infrastructure his system requires, Howe uses the example of the Bath County Pumped Storage hydro-electric dam in Virginia, US.

为了证明这个系统无需太多的基础设施，豪举例说明美国佛吉尼亚州巴斯县抽水蓄能水电大坝。

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As might be guessed by the surroundings, the place is arid and the mission of the dam is to provide water storage for this particularly dry part of the United States.

可以从周围的环境看出，这地方比较干燥，而大坝的使命就是为美国这部分特别干旱的地区贮存水资源。

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Likewise, pumping water into natural aquifers for seasonal storage tends to be much cheaper than building a big dam, and prevents the great waste of water through evaporation.

同样，把水抽送到天然地下储水层，季节性地储水，往往也比建大坝省更多的钱，同时还防止水分蒸发的浪费。

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In the 1970s, some pumped hydropower storage was built at existing dam reservoirs to store nuclear power that otherwise went largely wasted at night.

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