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Re:Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist by ofrzeta on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @12:49AM (#21521449)
Hydropower is actually not so nice when you take into account that it's the reason that many fish species are on the brink of extinction. That's in Europe at least but it seems that it's also a problem in the US, see https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gvm7vq/power-plants-are-b...
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Re:Don’t Call Me a Pessimist on Climate Change. I Am a Realist by AstralStorm on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:08AM (#21522275)
It will also start to have problems as temperature further increases, requiring fully closed storage systems rather than current use of rivers and aquifers.

That changes economics a lot.

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