US solar industry now employs more workers than oil and gas
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All of ye bitch and moan consistently,,,constantly never seen anything like it.
U no :angel5: yourself.
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Actually he had no idea what a Chinook was and for all his buddy- buddying with the 'natives', no one bothered to inform him - so he went to the climate summit and told all and sundry that he had witnessed climate change in action. Looked good on him.
So how is Solar and Wind power, better than Hydro from water??
I'll try to give you an answer you can understand. Hydro-electricity usually requires the building of dams to create reservoirs. Reservoirs flood land, often drowning existing farmland and sometimes (as in the case of China's Three Gorges dam) entire cities). Solar can pretty much be built anywhere (Germany has built solar collectors along the side of freeways - land that is not really used for anything). The same is true for wind generators which can be built off-shore or in relatively uninhabited areas.
Well, it is and it isn't depending on the situation. If the hydro-electric facility already exists, then solar and wind are not better. If you have to flood vast areas of forest or arable land to create new hydro-electric projects, then wind and solar might be better to some degree.
Small scale dams might be good though. For example, the Grand River in Ontario already has several small dams to control the water flow. They in fact help prevent flooding although they generate no energy. But the same idea could be used for any relatively fast moving body of water but with hydro-electric generation capabilities as well.
It would provide more localized generation for the surrounding area while helping take some of the load off the grid.