Posted inOctober 2, 2017: Following Ancient Footsteps

No free lunch for hydropower

Editor-in-Chief Brian Calvert described dams as “providing clean hydropower” (“Compromise amid the canyons,” HCN, 9/4/17). Actually, a spate of new research shows that there is basically no free greenhouse-gas lunch when it comes to generating electricity, and the burden of hydropower is increasingly coming into focus. The news is not good. For example, a recent […]

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