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jhoechtl
on Oct 27, 2022
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Why is hydroelectricity unfashionable?
Does the damage overweight the benefit? Would nuclear have been better?
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cwkoss
on Oct 27, 2022
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How can you quantify that? How many gigawatt hours is halving an ecosystem's biodiversity worth?
jhoechtl
on Oct 28, 2022
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That's exactly the point. I think there is a trade-off which has to be quantified. Claimimg to be unable to quantify this trade off is a death argument to any discussion.
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