[Kaslin]

I wonder why everybody talks about energy being generated by either Nuke plants, coals or fossil fuel, but water is never mentioned.

I am a naturalized citizen from Germany and the electricity in my hometown is and has always been made via water, from a creek that flows near the town.

[RedMonqey]

"the electricity in my hometown is and has always been made via water, from a creek that flows near the town. ”

Must be a small town if it's getting it's electricity from a "creek"

All snarkiness aside, dams would be an part of going green but dams are a big 'NO-No' in the green movement. So much so that out West they are tearing down small and mid sized dams so trout and salmon can return to those dammed up rivers.

Here in Tennessee, TVA is a term that leaves a bad taste in many old families here. a lot of old farms got gobbles up to build the multiple dams up and down the Tennessee, Cumberland and a few other rivers. People were pushed off and were given pennies on the dollar by the Roosevelt Administration. The Kennedy Administration later did the same thing to create "Land Between The Lakes" nature preserve, which is slowly being sold off to rich investors as vacation homes.

Yeah, dams sound good at first but the costs of buying prime real estate would bankrupt any state or national budget.