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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by mixmastamyk on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @05:28PM (#9728816)
Interesting that the article doesn't even mention nuclear as an option.

From another energy article today I found this, may be just what the doctor ordered:

http://qz.com/426718/japan-is-building-huge-solar-power-plan...

While nuclear would be a big step, it seems like solar could be introduced immediately piece by piece to reduce the coal burden.

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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by danmaz74 on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @06:02PM (#9728977)
This use case looks perfect for solar. Just have two smallish reservoirs, big enough to keep more or less a full-day worth of water for the canal, one at the river level and one at the high level. Then you don't even have to worry about not having solar power during the night.
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Re:Inside the Power Plant Fueling America’s Drought by sliverstorm on Tuesday June 16, 2015 @06:09PM (#9729020)
The first thing to cross my mind is that nature already builds those! :)

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

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