For more than a century this plant has utilized the water flowing off Pikes Peak to generate electricity. It's a very efficient piece of our renewable energy portfolio.
I worked for a while resurrecting hydropower at old New England mills. We worked with tens of feet of head not hundreds. I really appreciated the old time slide rule engineering that went into these places. One of our local city waterworks has a small turbine that is over a hundred years old and still produces power using the spring runoff. Hydropower is the cleanest and most efficient form of renewable energy. We need to develop as much as possible. By contrast how many tons of glass fiber and dangerous plastic are used to make one wind power turbine blade? How much pollution is generated making 100 kw of solar power?
Yay! Renewable energy! We need waaay more of it.
I worked for a while resurrecting hydropower at old New England mills. We worked with tens of feet of head not hundreds. I really appreciated the old time slide rule engineering that went into these places. One of our local city waterworks has a small turbine that is over a hundred years old and still produces power using the spring runoff.
Hydropower is the cleanest and most efficient form of renewable energy. We need to develop as much as possible. By contrast how many tons of glass fiber and dangerous plastic are used to make one wind power turbine blade? How much pollution is generated making 100 kw of solar power?