Hydropower and Climate Change

Good morning everybody today is November 13th 2019, I hope everybody is having a wonderful Wednesday morning. Today we have a  article on hydropower and climate change and how it affects us daily. So lets break it down! As everybody should know hydropower dams are all around  the world and they help us with our nation's energy. But it's not  reliable enough to easily meet our 21st century needs and we can't  create enough for New Rivers due to weakened Environmental Protections  placed on harmful dams. Our nation is at a Crossroads and we desperately  need to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels.

It's  actually very imperative that we continue are track on zero emissions  and replacing fossil fuels, most people don't realize that we actually  use hydroelectricity and a lot of people are still foreign to the  concept of solar energy and wind energy. The beginning step of  transitioning into a zero emissions world is putting to rest fossil  fuels leaving them alone and only using renewable resources such as  solar wind and hydroelectricity.

The  only solutions that we have at the moment for hydroelectricity is we  must increase efficiency at existing hydropower dams most of them were  built between 50 and 75 even more than a hundred years ago how many of  the dams are intensified inefficient generating equipment and the damn  owners should be required to get the equipment up to today standards and  make sure that they are working to maximum capacity for every drop of  water that runs through the machine.

We  should consider adding hydropower capacity to existing dams seeing as  there are more than 90,000 dams in the US and only a quarter of these  are actually in use and actually have hydropower capacity making sure  that we add the hydropower to these dams in good repair can  exponentially push more of them to be ready and usable.

We  must recognize that the dams have finite life spans and have to be  continuously monitored and rebuilt we also need to make sure that  everyone understands that dams have an impact and can be broken apart by  erosion over time so it doesn't matter the size of them but it does  matter the amount of Maintenance put on them. It really doesn't make any  sense to start construction on new dams considering the fact that we  have so many around the world what we should really be doing is trying  to efficiently get all of them up to today's standards and start  prioritizing hydroelectricity.

Everyone  must remember that dams do damage Rivers they disrupt the flow they  degrade the water quality they  continuously block the rivers normal  vital functions in a they do destroy some fish and wildlife habitats but  we could turn around and relocate these habitats to make sure that we  do not endanger any fish species.

My  final note is that hydropower dams can be contributing to the global  warming pollution when a forest is cut down to make way for a dam or  Reservoir sing as those trees no longer are available to absorb carbon  dioxide created by the fossil fuels that we are admitting they have no  way to combat it so it is a double edged sword which is why I also say  Do not create new ones complete and maintenance on the existing ones and  use them.

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