"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
"A republic, if you can keep it." Defeat MAGA
When California needs extra power, it generally imports hydropower from the State of Washington. This year though, a bit ominously, not only is there a California drought, the Pacific Northwest is also short on water. This means less hydropower for…
Should big hydropower be counted as renewable energy towards meeting a Renewable Portfolio Standard for a state? It generally isn’t, but that could be changing as states scramble to meet their RPS goals. Construction of big dams is indeed destructive…
Ibasei’s Cappa compact hydropower generator can deliver 250 W of electricity—roughly enough to power a home—yet is small enough to be transported between locations as needed.
Small hydro may have a promising future, especially run-of-the-river hydropower. Dams are not needed, eliminating the major problems of destruction of habitat and large areas by flooding plus the inevitable silting up of dams. Instead, water is diverted to power…
The turbines at Hoover Dam have a nameplate capacity of 2.08 GW, making it one of the largest hydro plants in the country and equal to nuclear and big coal plants. The Dam certainly is immense, 650 feet long and…