Hoover Dams For Lilliput: Does Small Hydroelectric Power Have a Future?

New submitter MatthewVD writes "Boing Boing's Maggie Koerth-Baker, author of Before The Lights Go Out, writes that the era of giant hydroelectric projects like the Hoover Dam has passed. But the Department of Energy has identified 5,400 potential sites for small hydro projects of 30 MWs or less. The sites, in states as dry as Kansas, represent a total 18,000 MW of power — enough to increase by 50 percent America's hydro power. Even New York City's East River has pilot projects to produce power from underwater turbines. As we stare down global warming and peak oil, could small hydroelectric power be a key solution?"

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Re:Economies of scale

[roman_mir]

Stop with the totalitarian bullshit. A human being who has never been conceived is not in any way "harmed".

- simply preventing people from what is their NATURAL RIGHT? As in - you are going to impose a government system on the people that would force them to have a prescribed number of children, and you call MY comment bullshit?

You are basically a failed sadist dictator, who'd love to impose himself upon the free will of others, and I am an ass?

Since you can't understand the written word, how should I spell it out to you, in which language? LEAVE THE PEOPLE ALONE. They'll be just fine without your totalitarian bullcrap, you modern day Hitler (end of discussion I suppose, no?)