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Energy-Miser

Energy-Miser

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Greetings,
With all of the activities around solar and wind generation, etc. what does everyone think about a forum heading for this topic? Your thoughts??
Respectfully, E/M.
 
What gets me, is why they don't consider hydroelectric "Clean Energy". I know it's not available to everybody, but it's a lot cheaper than solar and wind and 100 times more efficent.
 
hillbilly1 said:
What gets me, is why they don't consider hydroelectric "Clean Energy". I know it's not available to everybody, but it's a lot cheaper than solar and wind and 100 times more efficent.
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Hi Hillbilly,
I think what may be behind lack of attention to hdyroelectric in this country probably is that all the prime sites have already been developed and we are at a point of diminishing return for it. Also, I have seen some resistance to them based on the disruption of wild life migration, etc. and also based on the danger of breakage of a really large dam and harm to communities laying downstream from it. Personally I like large hydroelectric projects, I think they make a lot of sense. E/M
 
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What gets me, is why they don't consider hydroelectric "Clean Energy". I know it's not available to everybody, but it's a lot cheaper than solar and wind and 100 times more efficent.
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Hydro does have its costs. Anyway, I'm with you: it is a clean energy in as many ways as other so-called clean energy systems are. And what about nukes? I think we should have a lot more of those, too.

Anyway, I'm for a separate section of the forum for such a discussion; and for the MV section, too.
 
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