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Originally Posted by GGG
You could blow up a damn and kill a lot of people.
Hydro is also a dirty, dirty power source on a large scale. You destroy massive ecosystems to build big hydro. Run of the river hydro is better but not scalable.
Something like the Hoover Damn would never be built today because of habitat destruction. In fact damn removal to restore rivers is occurring in BC and Washington to help salmon stocks.
Hydro is not a guilt free solution either. Nuclear to me seems like the only viable approach that can take us to where we need to be on the next 30 years. Even the guy who started Greenpeace jumped on the nuke bandwagon.
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Just to add to this. The level of mercury in the water increases substantially in dammed lakes/rivers and gets into the food chain. A lot of great farmland is also destroyed by the process. Everything has it's consequences but I'm in the nuclear energy boat for sure.