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why is hydroelectric power not "renewable"?
by acchow 9y ago
why is hydroelectric power not "renewable"?
- gumby 9y agoI'm merely saying while California consumes a lot of energy from renewable sources, most of the energy generated in the state is dirty. In the specific case of hydro, California has, for all intents and purposes, none. There is some pumped hydro storage (as far as anyone can tell, all the reasonable candidate sites are in use) but actual generation comes from WA which has plenty of water flow. This also means that WA deals with the environmental problems of these generator dams, and California does not. California does have some wind and solar of course, in additional to its hydrocarbon plants. But lots of gas peakers.