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Los Angeles wants to use the Hoover Dam as a giant battery. The hurdles could be more historical than technical

  • Written by Anthony F. Arrigo, Associate Professor, Writing Rhetoric and Communication, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Los Angeles wants to use the Hoover Dam as a giant battery. The hurdles could be more historical than technicalThe shrinking supply of Colorado River water is evident at the Hoover Dam on the border of Arizona and Nevada.AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin

Los Angeles is looking into whether it should spend an estimated US$3 billion on a massive, 20-mile underground pumped hydropower storage system that would be connected to the iconic Hoover Dam on the Colorado...

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