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by bluGill 38 days ago
Good for them, but for most of the world there are no good hydropower locations left. And even when they exist building them is a local ecological disaster.
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Practically everything we do is a local ecological disaster.

Pumped storage hydro electricity is one of our least ecologically devastating options and we are not even remotely close to exhausting locations we can put them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...

Maybe they will have to divert their hydropower funds into solar or wind.