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> Hoover Dam What is wrong with it? It definitely caused damage, but also partially displaced more polluting energy sources, partially increased available ener
by matkoniecz 4y ago
> Hoover Dam
What is wrong with it? It definitely caused damage, but also partially displaced more polluting energy sources, partially increased available energy.
Are you sure that overall balance is so dismal?
- justinator 4y agoCurrently Lake Mead is at record lows, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-mead-water-level-historic-low-drought-heres-what-that-means/ https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-mead-water-level-historic-... https://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp https://mead.uslakes.info/level.asp The Hoover Dam is at half production, https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/hoover-dam-hydropower-drought-climate/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/16/us/hoover-dam-hydropower-drou... The system is failing.
- masklinn 4y agoAnd destroyed the Colorado river delta as a living ecosystem.