February 15, 2020
A Cool and Modest Proposal
Timothy Birdnow
This from the Captain Obvious department; dams slow down the flow of rivers and cool the water.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-hydropower-cool-rivers-mekong-river.html
From the article:
Anybody who has ever visited Lake Taneycomo in south-western Missouri knows about this; the lake used to be good for bass fishing but is now only good for trout, as it grew very cold after they dammed just above it to create Table Rock Lake. Now the water is cold and the trout plentiful (thanks to a hatchery.)
So, what's my point? If the Earth is warming so much from carbon dioxide, maybe we should start damming up all the rivers with hydroelectric plants; kill two birds with one stone! Generate non-carbon dioxide emitting energy and at the same time cool an allegedly warming world.
Why don't I think the people pushing the Climate Change meme will agree to this?
BTW more trout would be a delight in my humble opinion.
This from the Captain Obvious department; dams slow down the flow of rivers and cool the water.
https://phys.org/news/2020-02-hydropower-cool-rivers-mekong-river.html
From the article:
Using 30 years of satellite data, the team discovered that within one year of the opening of a major dam, downstream river temperatures during the dry season dropped by up to 3.6 degrees F (2 degrees C). The
cooling persisted where the rivers meet the Mekong River, which showed,
at most, a 1.4 F (0.8 C) cooling. The researchers published their
findings Feb. 13 in the journal Environmental Research Letters.
The team is also speaking about related research Feb. 15 at the
American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in
Seattle.
Anybody who has ever visited Lake Taneycomo in south-western Missouri knows about this; the lake used to be good for bass fishing but is now only good for trout, as it grew very cold after they dammed just above it to create Table Rock Lake. Now the water is cold and the trout plentiful (thanks to a hatchery.)
So, what's my point? If the Earth is warming so much from carbon dioxide, maybe we should start damming up all the rivers with hydroelectric plants; kill two birds with one stone! Generate non-carbon dioxide emitting energy and at the same time cool an allegedly warming world.
Why don't I think the people pushing the Climate Change meme will agree to this?
BTW more trout would be a delight in my humble opinion.
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