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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
The 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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