Re: renewable energy

[Bernard Cleyet <anngeorg@PACBELL.NET>]

"*British Columbia receives one tenth of all of the precipitation
that falls on North America. There is a good reason we are known
as the wet coast of Canada!"

Has any one predicted what global warming will do the the wet coast?

bc


Leigh Palmer wrote:

> The number I was given for Lake Powell, behind Hoover/Boulder Dam,
> is that it will become hydroelectrically unproductive in 200 years

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> Hydroelectric energy is not free. Calculating its true cost is
> highly problematical because one must calculate the very large
> environmental cost as a highly significant contribution. I just
> wanted to point out that fact because many of us city kids with
> physics educations think hydroelectric energy is, essentially,
> free. It ain't so.
>
> Leigh
>
> *British Columbia receives one tenth of all of the precipitation
> that falls on North America. There is a good reason we are known
> as the wet coast of Canada!