Well, men may have some sort of kinetic advantage in straight downhill racing, but the way we ski, we turn. The less you turn, the faster you go, until you can't stand it any more, or you crash. So going fast is a matter of technique and risk. But I suspect she'll catch up in a year or two. Time is on her side.
Or to the NewsPad, also dreamed up by ACC in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967).
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Just build an electric railway up to a high plateau. During the night run the trains loaded with some heavy material (such as depleted uranium) up to the high plateau. During the day, let the same trains return down using regenerative breaking :-).
In order to keep the air resistance at manageable levels, the train can not go very fast, so the track would have to be pretty steep.
In this modern reduce/re-use/recycle "greenie" era, from the hydro generation pov you could call it recycling the water.
In simple terms:
. During the day (peak load period) you use hydro to generate power to supplement the fossil fuelled base-load generating capacity.
. During the night (minimum load period) you use effectively surplus base-load generating capacity to pump the working fluid (literally) back up the hill to the point it started from.
You are using the potential energy of the stored water in the higher dam/pond as an energy "reservoir".
This allows the base load generating plant to operate at what is generally closer to best efficiency, and reduces the need to capitalise plant to meet peak demand.
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