eli5 If the pressure in water pipes can drive turbines etc, how do we generates this pressure?

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I’m assuming the answer is “massive pumps running off fossil fuels”

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Gravity mostly.

Water wants to run downhill and if you build a gigantic dam in the way of a river and only allow it to flow though a set of small pipes you can use that to generate lot of electricity.

In some cases reservoirs are sued a s giant batteries for the power grid.

Electricity is also used at some points to pump water up and generated later by letting the water flow through a generator t get electricity.

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