Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

On 27 Feb, Ron Johnson wrote:


It's not stupid if you haven't been there.

I thought you were smarter than that.

Presuming you're not:

Mountains and valleys (great for filling up with dammed water) are
the predominant geological feature of the areas of the Columbia and
Snake rivers where those hydro dams are located.

Mountains and valleys are *not* the predominant geological feature
of the Great Plains states, or those uber-mountainous states like
Louisiana and Mississippi.


But there are turbines which are designed to extract energy
from the flow of a river without the need of significant height
gradients. And tidewater generators don't rely on any (land)
topography, so the question is not entirely unreasonable.

-Chris

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