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NNadir

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1. The reality is that hydropower is about to become very erratic because of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere.

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Oct 5, 2025, 10:32 AM

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I'm a free river kind of guy, and I'm not really a fan of hydropower, the original concept behind destroying natural systems for so called "renewable energy."

I tend to smile when I learn of a dam being removed.

The greatest energy disaster of all time, if one is to exclude the disaster of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere - admittedly the biggest possible energy disaster of all time - was the collapse of the series of dams in the Banqiao disaster, although I will concede their are idiots who think Chernobyl, for example, was a bigger deal rather than what it actually was, on scale, that is, trivial.

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450 US Hydropower Sites Due For Relicensing In Next 10 Years; Average US Dam Age Is 65 Years [View all] hatrack Sunday OP

The reality is that hydropower is about to become very erratic because of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere. NNadir Sunday #1

To paraphrase a bit, sedimentation falls upon the just and unjust alike . . . hatrack Sunday #2

I'm not familiar with that one, but the one that scares me the most is, of course, the Three Gorges dam. NNadir Sunday #3

Wait until you see what they're building on the Yarlang Tsangpo . . . hatrack Sunday #4

Ow! I wasn't familiar with that one. With the destruction of the planetary atmosphere, now well underway... NNadir Sunday #5