all it takes is insightful smarts...and a can do, no dipsticks allowed, spirit. i posted some ideas above. Ya see, i'm full of it! here's more......
Maximizing Hydro power.
Many of our dams are bottom release dams. even those that aren't, could may be retrofitted for this to work. All Hydro electric stations are bottom release by necessity, thus we can tap into and use their existing " head ".
hydroelectric Dams at the head of rivers exist in our nation. their "harnessed" water power should be exploited the whole way to the Seacoast and NOT simple released at the bottom of the dam. That's dumb. Once we have the river harnessed with a dam, the Horses should not be unharnessed until they've ran the whole way to the sea. a pipeline should be extended from such dams to the sea with as many intermittent turbine stations as the physics will carry. Kinzua dam in northwest Pennsylvania is one such dam. it's hydro horsepower is currently merely spewed lose back into the Allegheney river. A waste. I say make those ponies run through a pipeline the whole way to New Orleans. along the way, splice in alot of other water pressure from the other vast amounts of dams along the way or on the tributary streams and gain even more generating capacity. Because the initial "head" would be higher than downstream obstacles the water will travel up/over/around/under said obstacles without losing power - just like on the science show! we have plenty of pipeline building expertise-PLENTY! Because water is incompressible and exerts pressure equally in all directions, very little power is lost going thru the turbines once they're up to speed. once you're downstream a little, power regained! We are wasting MASSIVE, MASSIVE amounts of clean hydro power from already existing dams thru premature release! yuck yuck yuck!
wanna hear some more legit clean energy ideas? like i said, i'm full of it.
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