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Actually the Yosemite valley has significant hydro potential.

• stjohnswarts 4y ago
  Isn't that all protected wilderness though?
  • bpodgursky 4y ago
    Of course, I'm saying > We just don't have reasonable places to keep daming Isn't super true from an energy perspective.
• jhoechtl 4y ago
  Germany is anecdotally facing an Energy crisis Nuclear power:no. Wind energy: off shore out of sight yes, but not on my mountain. Russian gas: no (more). Coal instead? No! So eveyone will install mini PV systems and become self-sufficient? First this wont work during the cold season and how incredible inneficient is this going to be? I think we must stop to outsource providing cheap energy to poor countries and tap on our.shoulders how green we are. Lithium batteries? Fine, but no lithium mine round my corner!
  • hypertele-Xii 4y ago
    There is no lithium to mine around your corner. Half of all known deposits on Earth are in Bolivia and Argentina.
    • bpodgursky 4y ago
      Yeah but that's really just because of globalization and marginal cost. Lower-quality Lithium reserves are in a ton of places but most countries have punted the environmental cost and hassle to the cheapest places to mine it.
    • pfdietz 4y ago
      Is France around the corner from Germany? Because France has lithium. https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/10/24/frances-massive-new-mithium-mine-could-supply-700000-electric-car-batteries-a-year https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/10/24/frances-massive-ne...
• Quillbert182 4y ago
  And it better be left alone. Hetch Hetchy has already been destroyed, we should preserve what little we have left.