One model shows how pump pumping water works using hills and valleys. (US Department of Energy)
The Senate Bill 147 includes Indiana’s clean energy resources to include groundwater. He passed the House of Representatives on Monday.
The technology generates energy by moving it through a turbine as it moves down from a high reservoir. In the US, it consumes a lot of energy-saving energy, but it is not used much in Indiana – the hills and valleys needed to create the two reservoirs are smaller.
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But miners and miners left in Indiana could allow the state to use the technology – and it would bring economic benefits to those areas.
It is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post.
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