Sentence examples for pump uphill from inspiring English sources

Elevating the bruised area forces your blood to pump uphill, which reduces the blood flow to the area.

Water also may be pumped uphill or thrown into the air in jets and fountains.

The other 30percentt of the city's water is pumped — uphill — from reservoirs 80 miles to the west.

Today, 99percentt of grid storage takes the form of "pumped hydro water is pumped uphill to a reservoir and released to turn a generator when energy is needed.

Currently, around 99percentt of grid storage is in the form of "pumped hydro where water is pumped uphill when there's electricity to spare, then released to turn a generator during times of demand.

The energy storage method most widely used today on power grids involves huge hydropower systems, in which water gets pumped uphill with extra electricity and then released through turbines when the energy is needed.

The power usually comes from places such as "Electric Mountain" on the edge of Snowdonia national park, where water is pumped uphill to a reservoir at times when electricity demand is low – and later released to turn turbines and rapidly generate electricity.

These systems pump water uphill into large reservoirs when electricity prices are cheap, and then release the water through turbines when extra power is needed.

It would draw water from the Spencer Gulf, pump it uphill when energy is plentiful and cheap, and convert it to hydro electricity at times of high demand.

But new programs combine wind and water: Wind-driven turbines pump water uphill at night, the most blustery period; then the water flows downhill by day, generating electricity, when consumer demand is highest.

The grid also permits surplus power to be used to pump water uphill in Norwegian hydroelectric plants (a system known as pumped storage), ready for use when demand spikes.Smarter grids, however, would help to smooth out such spikes in the first place.