Government Is Shutting Down Hydroelectric Power
One way you can tell that not even leftists are nutty enough to believe their own climate ideology is that they oppose nuclear energy, which unlike solar and wind is efficient, and which produces virtually no allegedly deleterious carbon emissions. Moonbat-ruled Germany is shutting down nuclear altogether. Another clue is the US government’s hostility to hydroelectric power.
DailyO reports approvingly on the tearing down of dams throughout the USA:
This ambitious effort seeks to reinstate the natural flow of rivers, enhance fish habitats, and restore ecosystems in collaboration with Native American tribes.
How woke. But the energy lost due to this posturing will have to be made up by burning fossil fuels, thereby imperiling the global climate according to liberal dogma.
The United States has witnessed over 2,000 dam removals so far, with a majority occurring in the last 25 years, reflecting a growing national consensus to restore the natural flow of rivers.
• The recent focus has been on the Klamath River, where four hydroelectric dams were built starting in 1918 to generate electricity. …
• In 2022 alone, the authorities in 20 different states undertook the removal of 65 dams as part of their initiatives to restore the connectivity of streams and rivers.
The pose doesn’t come cheap. The Klamath River dam removal project will cost $500 million, not counting the cost of lost energy. No doubt blowing up Hoover Dam will cost even more when they get to it.
Whatever green energy is about, it isn’t the climate. Hopefully forcing reliance on unsuitable wind and solar is mainly about Obama-style money laundering, and not a strategy for solidifying control by dramatically lowering our standard of living.
On a tip from Bluto.
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