Do away with 30,000 dams?

[laker67]

Have these people lost their minds?  Where are we getting the electricity we need for these freakin' electric cars if they do this, but they refuse nuclear power generation?

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/largest-dam-removal-project-in-history-restores-hope-we-have-watched-the-dams-suffocate-the-life-out-of-the-river/ar-AA1jsHnm?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=7c53b6c85d0c45c79e0245865dcb9c05&ei=13

[fishinwrench]

Fake news.  

That will not happen in our lifetime.

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2 hours ago, laker67 said:

Where are we getting the electricity we need for these freakin' electric cars if they do this

In most of the US we burn coal, nat gas and petroleum to fuel electric cars.  

[Maverickpro201]

Lots of people will be without drinking water also.

[tjm]

16 hours ago, Maverickpro201 said:

Lots of people will be without drinking water also.

They'll be fine if they stop wasting water washing cars and watering grass that they don't want and will cut down. The river will still be there without the dam.

But wrench is probably right that this won't happen, they might take out the more controversial dams or the ones that are failing anyway, but I doubt they ever take them all down. As for electricity, they don't provide very much of our total needs. Put an alternator on those EVs and let them charge them selves. 

[tjm]

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American Rivers has a goal of seeing 30,000 U.S. dams removed by 2030. The Klamath River dam removal project in California is leading the way in this effort, with the first of 4 dams almost completely gone.

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The Good News Network reported the work is 20 years in the making, involving legal challenges, advocacy, and a partnership with tribal nations to rehabilitate the river to its natural state.

See, it took them twenty years to get one dam almost gone, and they think they'll get 30,000 of them at that rate? at 20 y/d that's 600,000 years even if they all worked out simultaneously 20 years is still a lot more than the 6 years they are talking.

[Quillback]

27 minutes ago, tjm said:

As for electricity, they don't provide very much of our total needs. Put an alternator on those EVs and let them charge them selves. 

Not an alternator, but a generator.  

New Ram pickup EV has gas-powered electric generator (cnbc.com)

[tjm]

DC generators in the past were less efficient than alternators and if the generator is gas powered, the EV is not an EV it's gas powered.  I had suggested 20 years ago that a Harbor Freight diesel generator in the trunk would expand   the range of an EV.

But, my intent in this post was that the alternator be powered by the electric motor that powers the car.

[Flysmallie]

38 minutes ago, tjm said:

 that's 600,000 years

I can assure you that the dams will be gone in 600,000 years. 

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1 hour ago, tjm said:

. As for electricity, they don't provide very much of our total needs. Put an alternator on those EVs and let them charge them selves. 

It’s called a hybrid.   Been around for years.  Late 90’s I think.