Posted on 10/02/2016 7:22:09 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Hydropower has always been touted as a clean source of generating electricity, despite of the facts that it displaces thousands of people from their natural abodes, destroys their lives and livelihoods and submerges huge amounts of lands and forests.
Now, a new study claims that it is also accelerating global warming. [ ]
The study is done by Washington State University the has found that during times of drawdown a period in which the water level behind a dam is rapidly lowered temperate reservoirs can produce up 20 times more methane than normal.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanbazaaronline.com ...
Petition/sue the EPA to ban dangerous atmospheric pollution from man made dihydrogen monoxide (DMHO) now!
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