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China also still has huge rivers it can do this with. Where would we bulld a dam like this in North America? I suppose Northern Canada has undeveloped rivers bu
by api 2y ago
China also still has huge rivers it can do this with. Where would we bulld a dam like this in North America? I suppose Northern Canada has undeveloped rivers but not this big.
We could I suppose displace tens of millions of people and dam the Mississippi and the Ohio and power a good chunk of the Midwest but we have human rights. I’d rather us build nuclear, wind, solar, and batteries.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> China also still has huge rivers it can do this with We have more inland waterways than China. There just isn’t an economic case for dropping a huge dam here—our power growth is amply satisfied by cheaper solar and gas.
- plasticchris 2y agoConsidering transmission losses it might make more sense to dam many smaller rivers. And the Mississippi is an important freight route, a dam would complicate that.