If we're putting solar panels on buildings, why hasn't small-scale scattered-site hydroelectric taken off? Because of the other ecological effects on rivers?https://twitter.com/380kmh/status/967101032122736642 …
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Deerfield River is the largest river in the Berkshires; most dammed river per distance in the country and produces 90 MW. Vermont Yankee produced 620 MW.
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The Deerfield is also unusually well suited to hyroelectric generation because it drops steeply. Not a ton of other options like that.
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Yep. My point is, even in the best-case scenario like the Deerfield River, It's only a small fraction of the output of a big power plant [Vermont Yankee was 35% of Vermont's power consumption]
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there's plenty of scattered small-site dams in New England, not hooked up to anything though
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