Re: Re: Midterms
  By: Rob Mccart to MARK HOFMANN on Mon Aug 01 2022 12:54 am

 > Other than the nuclear waste issues..   Probably the best is Hydro Electric
 > power but few areas have ideal places to set that up. Zero pollution and we
 > have Hydro plants in Canada that have been running virtually unattended for 
 > long that their output has to be converted from 25 cycle to 60 cycle power,
 > something that was changed over to in the mid 1950's.
 > 

A problem with hydro is that it requires the placement of dams, and that can
get... painful.

General Franco placed lots of dams as part of his plan to make Spain less
dependant on foreigner energy. That meant flooding valleys inhabitated by
people, destroying countless villages in the process. Franco could get away
with it because he was a despot. I am not so sure the same plan would fly
today.

There is a bit of political drama these days because the North of Spain has
excedents of water, as a result of Franco's dam plans. Meanwhile, the South is
chronically pressing their water budget tight. Many Sourthern Spaniards
complain that the North has soo much water and that they should share. The
Northern Response is a variant of "My family had to lose his home so we could
have water reserves. If you want water reserves, build dams."




--
gopher://gopher.richardfalken.com/1/richardfalken
--- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
 * Origin: Palantir * palantirbbs.ddns.net * Pensacola, FL * (618:250/24)