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KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month agoIt’s not like a hydro plant is going to come back and haunt you in a 100 years from now.
the ecological impact of it, probably will. But that depends on whether you consider altering the ecological environment a “bad” thing or not.
threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That is a good point, it probably will, and I do consider it bad.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
there is actually a significant history with hydropower, back when it was growing as fast as it could. We discovered that it had significant ecological impacts, in particular on things like salmon migration here in the US, so now we have to seed rivers, and have done that since we’ve built most of those plants.
There’s a reason it’s fallen out of favor. Although pumped hydro i think is uniquely equipped since it’s not nearly as disruptive as building a massive dam in a huge river.