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Yahoo! Answers: Who is making money on the Green Movement??? Someone is and hereThis forum post is dated 06/27/10. If you feel it is old or outdated, please follow up with a question or comment and someone may be able to update it, or reply with newer information if you have it. Mississippi - Green Jobs
| Yahoo! Answers: Who is making money on the Green Movement??? Someone is and here When we talk about clean energy we talk only about solar and wind and while those are energy sources neither are reliable or capable or producing enough energy for a country the size of the US. Now, why is there no talk of hydo. Hydroelectric has been a clean energy source used for years. The TVA miracle of electricity for the South decades ago was hydroelectric. Its a clean source of energy and can produce greater amounts of clean power. Solar and wind are centralized in the West and Soutwest with few good sites in the East. But the East is home to mightly rivers that run year round, are already locked and damned and can be converted to hydro dams easily and still maintain river transportation through the locks. A river the length of the Ohio alone can produce enough hydro for the eastern US and there are mightly rivers, Missouri, Allegheny, Mon, Mississippi, Wabash who can support the entire US. But they are mostly in the East. So is that why no one talks about hydro? Its not even part of the national clean energy discussion even though it is the only one that can work. So why? Who makes the money from the "new" jobs, the "new investment" of wind and solar? GE is in big for solar and wind and they own NBC, MSNBC who are really just mouthpieces for the Obama Administration, the Obama Channel. Are we being had just like the robber barons of the past century? Why no hyrdo? I have heard the decaying matter agrunment but that would only apply on small units, not generators operating on huge rivers like the Ohio and others. There is no stagnant pool of water behind the river generators in fact they are no different that the locks and dams that are used to control depth of rivers for navigation. And we are not talking about damned up rivers that flood areas, the major rivers in the East already have locks and dams so there is no loss of land. These are powerful rivers that can just as easily turn a turbine screw with the water that passes through them the same as the water runs over the locks now. There are hydros on |
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