The reality is that hydropower is about to become very erratic because of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere.
I'm a free river kind of guy, and I'm not really a fan of hydropower, the original concept behind destroying natural systems for so called "renewable energy."
I tend to smile when I learn of a dam being removed.
The greatest energy disaster of all time, if one is to exclude the disaster of the destruction of the planetary atmosphere - admittedly the biggest possible energy disaster of all time - was the collapse of the series of dams in the Banqiao disaster, although I will concede their are idiots who think Chernobyl, for example, was a bigger deal rather than what it actually was, on scale, that is, trivial.
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