Mandates driving surge to the river for hydropower

December 1, 2008 By TERRY KINNEY and JIM SUHR , Associated Press Writers

(AP) -- Many decades ago, cost-conscious Henry Ford turned to hydroelectric plants to power his car factories like the one by the Great Miami River, near this Cincinnati suburb. That assembly plant is long gone, but the power plant and the technology behind it isn't. Far from it. The push to get electricity from moving water is only picking up steam.



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  • hudres - Dec 01, 2008
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    While a laudable idea, all the good spots for hydropower are already taken. Dams cannot be spaced to close together or they don't work.
  • Lord_jag - Dec 01, 2008
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    The best part of hydro is that they can be used as a "battery" too. If you set up huge amounts of wind and solar power, if the hydro-power isn't needed, you can turn it off, and if you still ahve too much power, you can use it to pump water behind the damn
  • COCO - Dec 03, 2008
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    these are toys -real men go nuclear - almost as silly as the wind turbine truthers. I say prison is too good for them!!
  • sterlingda - Dec 05, 2008
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    There are a multitude of run-of-river technologies that don't require dams. See http://peswiki.co...r_Energy

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