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How the hell do you screw up a geothermal well? Especially one that produces 35MW instead of 45MW..
There's more to this story.. Never was a risk of a "dry well" -- the margin should have been there for producing slightly less.. I think INCOMPETENT people are getting the GOVT funding. The ones that would NEVER have trusted by private investors..
And USCittyCat -- Hydro USED to be green.. Officially, it's been purged from most lists of "alternatives". Except for "micro-hydro" which is an enviro nightmare and a joke.. Time to FREE the salmon and restore the river ecologies...
How the hell do you screw up a geothermal well? Especially one that produces 35MW instead of 45MW..
There's more to this story.. Never was a risk of a "dry well" -- the margin should have been there for producing slightly less.. I think INCOMPETENT people are getting the GOVT funding. The ones that would NEVER have trusted by private investors..
And USCittyCat -- Hydro USED to be green.. Officially, it's been purged from most lists of "alternatives". Except for "micro-hydro" which is an enviro nightmare and a joke.. Time to FREE the salmon and restore the river ecologies...
Las Vegas was a little cow town before FDR's Hoover Dam and all those tax dollars.
They still depend on Hoover dam for electric and water.
Nevada has great geothermal potential. Plus solar, and some wind. Time to take advantage of those resources, and get off of fossil fuels.
Hydro USED to be green.. Officially, it's been purged from most lists of "alternatives". Except for "micro-hydro" which is an enviro nightmare and a joke.. Time to FREE the salmon and restore the river ecologies...
5. New Large Hydroelectric Plants
While few if any large hydro sites still remain for development in the U.S., Canadian sites that could serve the U.S. market are being actively explored. Of additional concern are efforts in developing countries, often with the support of international finance institutions, to build large dams in the few remaining natural sites. The well-known drawbacks of large hydro include inundation of large natural areas, substantial damage to fish and wildlife, interference with fish migration and reproduction, and displacement of human and natural communities. Some reservoirs fill up prematurely and are rendered useless for power generation due to siltation. There is also evidence that large dam impoundments, especially in the tropics, emit significant amounts of methane and CO2. The Sierra Club strongly opposes the construction of new large hydroelectric dams.
Earth Island Journal / By Sarah Phelan Hydropower Doesn't Count as Clean Energy
Think hydropower helps in the fight against climate change? Think again.
October 5, 2007
Opponents of dams have long argued against putting barriers in the natural flow of a river. Dams, they point out, prevent endangered fish from migrating, alter ecosystems, and threaten the livelihoods of local communities.
Native Americans, fishing communities, and environmentalists have made these arguments in their quest to decommission four dams on Klamath River, which runs from southwest Oregon to the coast of California. But with California requiring a 25 percent reduction in the state's carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, clean energy has suddenly entered the Klamath dam debate.
Bill Fehrman, president of PacifiCorp, the hydropower company that owns these Klamath dams, says replacing the power from these dams "could result in adding combustion emissions to the environment."
Maybe not. Recent reports on methane emissions suggest that dams are anything but carbon-neutral.
According to recently published estimates from Ivan Lima and some of his colleagues at Brazil's National Institute for Space Research, the world's 52,000 largest dams release 104 million metric tons of methane annually. If Lima's calculations are correct, then dams would account for about four percent of the total warming impact of human activities -- and would constitute the largest single source of human-related methane emissions.
SHANGHAIFor over three decades the Chinese government dismissed warnings from scientists and environmentalists that its Three Gorges Damthe world's largesthad the potential of becoming one of China's biggest environmental nightmares. But last fall, denial suddenly gave way to reluctant acceptance that the naysayers were right. Chinese officials staged a sudden about-face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problemsand, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.
WASCO, Ore. For decades, most of the nations renewable power has come from dams, which supplied cheap electricity without requiring fossil fuels. But the federal agencies running the dams often compiled woeful track records on other environmental issues.
Now, with the focus in Washington on clean power, some dam agencies are starting to go green, embracing wind power and energy conservation. The most aggressive is the Bonneville Power Administration, whose power lines carry much of the electricity in the Pacific Northwest. The agency also provides a third of the regions power supply, drawn mostly from generators inside big dams.
Yet the shift of emphasis at the dam agencies is proving far from simple. It could end up pitting one environmental goal against another, a tension that is emerging in renewable-power projects across the country.
Environmental groups contend that the Bonneville Power Administrations shift to wind turbines buttresses their case for tearing down dams in the agencys territory, particularly four along the lower Snake River in Washington State that helped decimate one of North Americas great runs of wild salmon.
When it comes to helping salmon, Bonneville has been dragged kicking and screaming every inch of the way, said Bill Arthur, a Sierra Club representative in the Northwest. Mr. Arthur praised the agencys efforts to add wind power, but he argued that the four lower Snake River dams, which are far smaller than major dams like Grand Coulee, were not needed to back up wind power.
NV pretty much exists because of taxpayer funded green energy and water projects arising from FDR's New Deal.
Hydro power is green energy.
How the hell do you screw up a geothermal well? Especially one that produces 35MW instead of 45MW..
There's more to this story.. Never was a risk of a "dry well" -- the margin should have been there for producing slightly less.. I think INCOMPETENT people are getting the GOVT funding. The ones that would NEVER have trusted by private investors..
And USCittyCat -- Hydro USED to be green.. Officially, it's been purged from most lists of "alternatives". Except for "micro-hydro" which is an enviro nightmare and a joke.. Time to FREE the salmon and restore the river ecologies...
Las Vegas was a little cow town before FDR's Hoover Dam and all those tax dollars.
They still depend on Hoover dam for electric and water.
Nevada has great geothermal potential. Plus solar, and some wind. Time to take advantage of those resources, and get off of fossil fuels.