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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by sampo on Monday March 28, 2022 @05:32PM (#30835871)
> From a Californian perspective, hydro and geothermal are basically tapped as far as I know

For what I understand, the California State Water Project as visioned in the 1960s, had Stage I and Stage II. Only Stage I was built. Then from the 1980s onward, there was political opposition and Phase II was never started.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Water_Project...

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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by SllX on Monday March 28, 2022 @08:29PM (#30837258)
True, but the Klamath River is in the grand scheme of things a fairly minor watershed in California. Some room for growth, but effectively tapped out as far as the major watersheds in the State go. We have just a lot of dams and we’re still importing more and more of our energy from other States as we make it harder to build plants here.
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