Re:Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days
by godshatter on Friday July 12, 2019 @03:05PM
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I would consider them renewable as long as the river keeps flowing. The question of whether or not we should use them because of the damage to fish populations is another question entirely.
Re:Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days
by NegativeLatency on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:29PM
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Not just the fish are impacted by the dams https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2018/11/feds-approve-plan-fo...
> The state applied to kill the sea lions “because their analyses showed that the high levels of predation by sea lions meant there was an almost 90% probability that one of the upper Willamette steelhead runs would go extinct,” the wildlife agency said in a statement.
Re:Costa Rica has run on 100% renewable energy for 300 days
by NegativeLatency on Friday July 12, 2019 @06:26PM
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Not to mention the cascading downstream (no pun intended) effects like Orcas starving to death.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/hunger...
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/25/orca-sta...
It would be interesting to see what effects the New Deal had on our fish populations... https://livingnewdeal.org/new-deal-categories/infrastructure...