[HN Gopher] A River Reawakened
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       A River Reawakened
        
       Author : swarmy
       Score  : 43 points
       Date   : 2021-10-20 00:10 UTC (22 hours ago)
        
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       | OneTimePetes wrote:
       | So, this is removal of hydro-energy - a renewable baseload
       | carrier. I can see the smokestack carrying its load in the
       | distance? Why is there no discussion here between global
       | environmentalists and local environmentalists?
        
         | BurnGpuBurn wrote:
         | The power stations at those dams didn't produce much power to
         | begin with, them being very old designs. Note that most of the
         | tens of thousands of dams in the US are just old relics serving
         | no function, that are very expensive to remove. I agree that
         | it's not an environmentally friendly way to generate power.
        
           | pfdietz wrote:
           | There are lots of small dams that serve no purpose now. The
           | one in the following link (in Maryland) was near where I grew
           | up. It was just a dangerous eyesore (the circulation below
           | the dam was a deathtrap). After it was built in 1907, it
           | generated power for just 17 years.
           | 
           | https://dnr.maryland.gov/fisheries/pages/fishpassage/bloede..
           | ..
        
         | matt_morgan wrote:
         | Because no serious environmentalist considers big hydro a net
         | positive.
        
       | timdiggerm wrote:
       | This is beautiful writing, worthy of the beautiful Olympic
       | Peninsula, but the lines about "when the world was young" are
       | misguided & misleading. It's only something closer to "when the
       | world was as-yet unoppressed by foolish industrialism" or
       | something like that.
        
         | mc32 wrote:
         | That's also romantic. It's more like, when there were much
         | fewer people living on the planet.
        
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