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Friday, June 18, 2021
This oughta help California's electricity issues
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history to save imperiled migratory salmon.
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"to save imperiled migratory salmon." I am so sick of this save the species crap I could vomit. Those dip wads already have blackouts. Ignorant asshats should just build water bridges AROUND the dams. Why are californians so stupid? Is it the water?
ReplyDeleteYou know, I'm a bit curious about wind power generators and the incidences of brown outs. Texas has not had widespread wind farms for that long and suddenly, having statewide brown outs becomes more common.
ReplyDeleteHydroelectric dams are a constant, having the amount of water regulated for a steady stream of electricity. Wind - not nearly as constant. Voltage regulator for battery must take a beating for that. ???
Just when you thought they could not get any stupider, "here hold my beer".
ReplyDeleteAnd some kind of delta smelt is the reason they're running outta drinking water, but they voted for the dipshits. Let 'em burn!
ReplyDeleteCombined, those dams generate about 150 Megawatts. PacificCorp says that's not significant, but I doubt they've asked the 70,000 customers what they think.
ReplyDeleteWhat's really bad about this is it gives more ammunition to the assholes who want to knock down the Lower Snake River dams.
The mouth of the Klamath is about a half hour drive from my house. A few years ago we lost almost all of our salmon to the ich because the water was too warm. This happens when there is not enough shade on streams and especially when it is combined with low water levels. Both apply to the Klamath salmon problems.
ReplyDeleteBecause of the dams, the flow is not deep enough during spawning and because the fish cannot get to the spawning grounds that guaranteed the river was teeming with spawning salmon, enough to keep humans and the entire ecosystem alive and healthy.
The tribe had to call off even its annual salmon festival for a few years due to the dearth of fish... of fish that had survived droughts of many decades duration in the past.
We've over fished. We've cut down or burned away the river's shade in too many places. We've built dams that stop the salmon, trapping them where the water gets too low and warm and kills them off in even greater numbers.
The salmon swim and swim and swim until they get the very furthest up a stream they can possibly go. You can see them still swimming when the water doesn't even cover them anymore. They lay their eggs and fertilize them and die. The eggs hatch and the fry are able to ebb along with the river, staying within their temperature zone all the way, until they are big enough to make it out to sea.
The very act of stopping them short of their goal with those dams has done most to bring them so close to extinction in yet another river. The Yurok and Karuk tribes have been working their butts off to restore the watercourses and timberlands that have produced the magnificent wild salmon upon which the health of so many rely. They had been living off this resource for more than twelve thousand years.
There are other ways to generate power... AND the fewer dams here the fewer pinheads move here. They've been trying to infect us for years already. We do NOT want to be like the rest of the state, thank you.
I remember wading the Eel River coming up to my ankles and warm as bathwater.
DeleteThe frogs were displeased.
Darwin says 'evolution'...AND 'survival of the fittest' (95% of ALL species go extinct)rule the planet...because...science.
ReplyDeleteGot nuke?
I have an issue with 'survival of the fittest'.
DeleteI think 'survival of the quickest to reproduce' is closer to reality.
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An aside:
Inner-city slum-trash breed for:
a) early sex availability.
Some slum-trash females are pregnant at eleven years old... and younger.
Unfit, they have no real-world survival skills.
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Inner-city slum-trash also breed for:
b) fighting
c) pigment recognition... and pigment exclusion.
If you look like them, they play-fight on the basketball court.
If you look different from them, the fighting goal is extinction.
I don't know about that area but in others the Native Americans strip-mine the rivers with gill nets and nobody says a thing about it.
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ReplyDeleteIs China behind this movement? They most certainly benefit ever time energy costs go up in America.
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