In some former mill towns like Holyoke, electricity is still dirt cheap because they still have the 100+ year old power systems from the heyday of the mills...
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At a certain point we decided it wasn't OK to drown any more open space behind big dams.
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Drowning open space behind dams is what we do for water, not so much for power (see: Holyoke, Lowell, etc)
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I wonder about former mill villages like Bondsville and Gilbertville--they seem pretty destitute now, maybe they could start using the rapids for power instead of manufacturing
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How much power can one generate from turbines on a medium-sized river like the Swift?
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That's what I want to know! But there are dozens, if not hundreds, of sites in Massachusetts alone which fall into this category--what happens if they're all generating again?
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Probably not much, because hydro potential in Massachusetts has to be divided by a high population density. It's not Sweden or Canada.
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State population is around 6 million
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And state land area is 20,000 km^2, hence high population density.
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I don't think the mills were hydroelectric, or at least not until fairly recently.
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They were hydropower, but didn't use the power for electricity in most cases
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Holyoke does harness power from its dams and canals http://www.hged.com/community-environment/green%20initiative/hydro/default.aspx …
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