To: wolfpat
"I don't think hydropower should be counted because after the initial construction is paid off, the power is effectively free" Not true....
Big contributor to global warming is all the methane etc that bubbles up from the rotting forests and other vege matter beneath the new lake upstream from the dam.
70 posted on
03/04/2007 9:16:36 AM PST by
spokeshave
("Hitlery is uniting the country. Everybody hates her.")
To: spokeshave
What you say is true, but the "Carbon Offset" con men are advertising hydropower as a green power source.
74 posted on
03/04/2007 9:53:10 AM PST by
wolfpat
(If you don't like the Patriot Act, you're really gonna hate Sharia Law.)
To: spokeshave
Big contributor to global warming is all the methane etc that bubbles up from the rotting forests and other vege matter beneath the new lake upstream from the dam. As if that vegetation wouldn't die and rot eventually anyway? But, it's a great argument for clearcutting the forest first!
106 posted on
03/05/2007 8:13:38 AM PST by
LexBaird
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