Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as 2013
By ERIC WOLFF , September 11, 2010
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')fter 75 years of steadily cranking out electricity for California, Arizona and Nevada, the mighty turbines of the Hoover Dam could cease turning as soon as 2013, if water levels in the lake that feeds the dam don't start to recover
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"The drought can't last forever," DiDonato said. "Eventually, the lake is going to fill up again. You have to hope it does."
Actually, the drought may not be a short-term emergency so much as a feature of a new, drier American West.
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Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as 2013
Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as 2013
by Keith_McClary » Sun 19 Sep 2010, 15:30:43
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Re: Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as
by Tanada » Sun 19 Sep 2010, 17:21:24
Anyone have any common sense left? Stop irrigating a hundred thousand acre's of desert, and start using the dam to produce power during peak loads instead of as a base load supply source. Problem solved.
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Re: Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as
by Oakley » Sun 19 Sep 2010, 19:26:13
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'A')nyone have any common sense left? Stop irrigating a hundred thousand acre's of desert, and start using the dam to produce power during peak loads instead of as a base load supply source. Problem solved.
Yea, lets start starving a bunch of people right now and avoid the last minute rush that will come when there is not enough oil to run farm equipment.
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Re: Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as
by vtsnowedin » Mon 20 Sep 2010, 06:17:07
If you look at the Lake Meade web site you can see that the lake is actually twenty feet above its historical average for Sept.20. It is the end of the water year and the growing season. Also there are 24 million acre feet of water upstream at lake Powell. http://lakemead.water-data.com/
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Re: Hoover Dam could stop generating electricity as soon as
by Tanada » Mon 20 Sep 2010, 06:23:51
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Oakley', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'A')nyone have any common sense left? Stop irrigating a hundred thousand acre's of desert, and start using the dam to produce power during peak loads instead of as a base load supply source. Problem solved.
Yea, lets start starving a bunch of people right now and avoid the last minute rush that will come when there is not enough oil to run farm equipment.
Starve my behind, look out the window and tell me how many of the people you see look like they are eating lots of produce, which is the main type of food crop in the southwest desert? Then ask yourself why Cotton, a very high water demand crop, is the next biggest water consumer in the desert?
We can easily feed ourselves without irrigating the flippin desert, but the government has made irrigation water from the Colorado river so insanely under priced that grow high value crops there instead of elsewhere. In much of the area east of the Mississippi former crop land has been reverting to wood lot because mega farm agribusiness using cheap fed subsidized water brought prices so low that eastern farms could not compete. It is what always happens when top down bureaucracy picks a mega winner and subsidizes them over everyone else, desert farming exploded in the 1940's and 1950's and because their water expenses have not risen. As environmental costs to the Colorado watershed went up they have a strong economic advantage despite the damage done elsewhere as a result. Make them pay what the water is worth and stop subsidizing idiotic crop choices. Grow crops that have a low water demand if you must grow in the desert, not high demand like Cotton and Produce.
Name me one other country that dedicates so much water and energy to irrigating desert to grow these kinds of crops?
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Alfred Tennyson', 'W')e are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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