Demand for power is growing fast, but hydro plants, the oldest source of clean energy, are struggling because of droughts, floods and other extreme weather linked to climate change.

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    6 天前

    The world doesn’t need more energy.

    Kill off crypto mining and LLM AI bullshit and we’d have plenty of energy.

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    8 天前

    The belatedly-realized fact that dams sometimes screw up downstream habitat doesn’t help either.

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      8 天前

      Afaik, the big Chinese dam was also slowing down the rotation of earth, due to the displaced amount of water. So the Chinese then decided they needed an even bigger one…

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        8 天前

        Do you have any reason to believe there are adverse effects from Earth’s slowing rotation due to Three Gorges Dam?

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          7 天前

          I’m just not comfortable with humans messing around with the planet by that much… It’s not working great with everything else, is it?