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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I think your dismissal of hydro on the basis of yet to be determined impacts of un nominated dams is rather odd as the various problems ( which you failed to cover) say with fish migration are relatively easy to overcome....I think the reason we have environmental impact studies is so we get a factual assessment as opposed to an uninformed casual dismissal...I think the negativity re dams is due to propaganda from those who seek dominance in the energy business ( one body is lobbying hard to get their solution accepted) and clearly the Snowey has been painted in a bad light when the problem there never was anything to do with the generation of power but due to the diversion of the river for agriculture to the West...unfortunately folk just dismiss hydro without thinking and responding as programmed to do so by the negative propaganda..in my view...why would you not go hydro as it is simply the best...
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Actually I did not dismiss hydro - I just want it done in an environmentally safe manner, instead of huge dams drowning lots of land or river diversions, etc. As I previously mentioned, the tech is out there now for doing it with these low impact turbines. They're being rolled out in various places around the world to assist getting power to remote places or developing nations, etc.
If you wander over to youtube and do some searching you'll see examples of low environmental impact hydro turbines.