re my last comment: clarification: Aug 2012 535 responds to 534 «energy storage» via demand side management via
desalinating /
cleaning water and storing it in an aquifer when energy is available; also apply to sequestration efforts, fuel production, others...
Merrington explains: «The race will proceed, but its intention is to use none of the city's municipal
water for the event, by buying
water, from areas not subject to shortages, for drinking on the route, using
desalinated water for
cleaning, and the organisers will purchase 2 million litres of spring
water and put this into the local grid to off - set the estimate usage by the non-local participants.»