Yet you mortgaged your future to transport construction equipment back and forth through Alberta .
2/3rds of Canada's Hydro now comes from renewables
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2/3rds of Canada's Hydro now comes from renewables
100% of Canada's Hydro comes from the renewable resource ... Hydroelectricity.
There are other forms of generation, as well.
100% of Canada's Hydro comes from the renewable resource ... Hydroelectricity.
There are other forms of generation, as well.
Being intentionally obtuse again? I said,
In the case of hydro-electric power, that "fuel" is a body of water.
You can't store wind or hold it in a reservoir. If the wind ain't blowing hard enough, or at all, you ain't generating wind power. If the wind is blowing too hard, you ain't generating wind power.
You can't bring wind to a turbine and you can't store it in case it stops blowing. Hence why wind and solar power are dependent upon the vagaries of weather.
And while hydro-electric power is renewable, unless you have a waterfall feature that can be exploited with minimal impact to the environment, eg: Niagara Falls, hydro-electric power isn't exactly green if you're planning new projects.
Really why? Green tech is in its infancy, but has already advanced much more quickly than its detractors predicted. It will continue to advance for three reasons:
1. Most people prefer clean air over dirty air.
2. The cost of producing green energy is steadily dropping.
3. Technical problems of storage are being tackled in a multitude of ingenious ways.
4. Green tech offers a stable solution to producing energy, unlike the wildly fluctuating prices in commodities like oil, and the uncertainty of oil fields that are primarily controlled by unstable undemocratic regimes.
Note, this has nothing to do with global warming. It is all about superior tech replacing old tech, in much the same way that coal and oil replaced traditional fuels.
As per the title of the thread, the issue looks at the source.
Besides, hydroelectric dams don't just build themselves
Besides, hydroelectric dams don't just build themselves
