Corresponding Web Notes: Hydroelectric Power (pptx
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U.S. Renewable Energy Statistics:
U.S. Primary Energy Consumption by Source and Sector - 2015 (link
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2010 Renewable Energy Data Book, U.S. National Renewable Energy
Laboratory (link
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The 2016 (U.S.) National Hydropower Map, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (link
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Conventional Hydroelectric Dams:
Hydroelectric power: How it Works, USGS Water Science School (link
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Hydroelectric power - Managing water in the west - 2005 - U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation (link
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Hydropower Status Report 2022 - International Hydropower Association (link
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Run of the
River (ROR) Hydroelectric Dams:
The "Cascata della Marmore" power
plant near Terni in Umbria Italy
Most waterfalls evolve over tens of thousands
of years. But the "Cascata delle Marmore" (i.e., waterfall at
Marmore) was created by Roman engineers in 271 BC when they cut
a drainage canal from a soggy plateau over to the edge of an
adjacent valley. Then, 2200 years later, modern engineers
diverted that flow to drive what became (in 1929) Europe's
largest hydroelectric power plant. But today, for visitors, the
falls are turned back on for an hour at both noon and 5pm. The
Apple Maps satellite photo (above) shows the falls (while on, at
the center right), the diversion stream (at center), which at
its end drops down into a tunnel ("penstock") passing beneath a
hilltop quarry, to drive the power plant (to the quarry's left).
My twenty minute time-lapse movie (below) shows the falls being
turned back off again after 1 PM.
Pumped Storage Hydro (PSH):
Packing Some Power, The Economist, 3 May 2012 (link
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Europe to Experience Pumped Storage Boom, Strategic Energy
Technologies Information System (SETIS), European Commission,
December 2013 (link
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Quantifying the Operational Benefits of Conventional and
Advanced Pumped Storage Hydro on Reliability and Efficiency,
U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory (link
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Bath County Pumped Storage Station, Dominion Power Corp. (link
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On the differences between tidal
barrages, tidal lagoons and ocean lagoons:
Electricity Generation by the Tidal Barrages, Etemadi et
al., Energy Procedia 12, pp. 928-935, 2011 (link
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Review of Tidal Lagoon Technology and Opportunities for
Integration within the UK Energy System, Grazia Todeschini,
Inventions 2, #2030014, 2017 (link
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Ups and downs of the UK's
long-running Severn Tidal Barrage debate:
2004: A Severn Barrage or Tidal Lagoon? Friends of the Earth
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2010: Severn Tidal Power - Feasibility Study Conclusions and
Summary Report, UK Government (link
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2012: Abandoned Severn Tidal Power Project to be
Reconsidered, The Guardian (link
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2012: Should a Tidal Barrage be Built Across the Severn
Estuary? The Guardian (link
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2013: Severn Tidal Power Barrage Plans Slammed by MPs, The
Guardian (link
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2013: UK Government Rejects Current Severn Barrage Plans, The
Guardian (link
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2015: UK Unveils Huge Lagoon Power Plants Stretching Miles
into the Sea, The Independent (link
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2015: World's First Lagoon Power Plants Unveiled in UK, BBC (link
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2017: Tidal Lagoons Could Eventually Transform UK Coastline,
BBC (link
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2017: UK Urged to Push Ahead with World-First Tidal Lagoon
Power Plant, The New Scientist (link
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2017: Swansea Bay project: Tidal Lagoons Cheaper
than 'Almost any other Source of Power', Concludes
Energy Expert , The Independent (link
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2017: Tidal Power: Still
Expensive, Still Unlikely to Contribute Much,
CleanTechnica.com (link
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2018: Harnessing the Power of our Tides, TidalLagoonPower.com
(link
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Today's U.S. Hydropower:
The 2016 (U.S.) National Hydropower Map, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (link
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Frequently Asked Questions about Removing Dams (including
general data about U.S. dams), AmericanRivers.org (link
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Limits of Hydropower / Objections to
Hydropower:
Drought & Climate Change:
Lake Mead:
Southwest Braces as Lake Mead Water Levels Drop, 12 August
2014, Associated Press (link
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Latest Forecast Shifts Lake Mead from Big Gain to Small
Loss, 16 June 2017, Las Vegas Review Journal (link
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Low Water May Halt Hoover Dam’s Power, 22 September 2010,
Circle of Blue Org (link
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Evaporation from Lake Mead, Arizona and Nevada, 1997-99,
United States Geological Survey (link
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Entire Colorado River Basin:
Colorado River Basin Water Supply and Demand Study, 2012,
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation (link
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Drought in the Colorado river Basin - Insights Using Open
Data, U.S. Department of the Interior (link
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Climate and Hydrology of the Colorado River Basin Region,
Chapter 3, National Academies Press - Open Book (link
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Climate-change Impacts on Water Resources and Hydropower
Potential in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Kopytkovskiy et
al., J. Hydrology: Regional Studies 3, pp. 473-93, 2015 (link
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Impacts of Climate Change on Electric Power Supply in the
Western United States, Bartos & Chester, Nature Climate
Change 5, pp. 748-52, 2015 (link)
Climate Change Threatens Electric Power Supply in
California, Report Warns, 18 May 2015, The Guardian (link
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The Twenty‐first Century Colorado River Hot Drought and
Implications for the Future, Udall & Overpeck, Water
Resources Research 53, pp. 2404-14, 2017 (link)
Climate Change is Already Reducing Flows in the Colorado
River, Scientists Report, 27 February 2017, The Washington
Post (link
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Carbon Footprint of Concrete:
Concrete: Scientific Principles, Materials Science &
Technology Teacher's Workshop, University of Illinois (link
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Evaluation of Migration Effectiveness at Hydropower Projects:
Fish Passage, 2004, Federal Energy Regulatory Comission (link
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Survival Estimates for the Passage of Spring-Migrating
Juvenile Salmonids through Snake and Columbia River Dams and
Reservoirs, 2014, National Marine Fisheries Service, National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (link
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Impact on Rainforests and Tropical
River Deltas:
Multiple Rivers:
Balancing Hydropower and Biodiversity in the Amazon, Congo,
and Mekong, Winemiller at al., Science 351, pp. 128-9,
January 2016 (link)
Hydro Dam Boom Threatens a Third of the World's Freshwater
Fish, The Guardian, 8 January 2016, (link
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Amazon River:
Dependence of Hydropower Energy Generation on Forests in
the Amazon Basin at Local and Regional Scales, Stickler et
al., PNAS 110, pp. 9601-6, June 2013 (#1215331110) (link
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Study of Controversial Dam Reveals Hidden Dependence on
Rainforest, Science Magazine - News, 15 May 2013 (link
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Hydroelectric Dams May Jeopardize the Amazon’s Future,
University of Texas, 14 June 2017 (link
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How a Dam Building Boom Is Transforming the Brazilian
Amazon, Yale 360, September 2017 (link
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Fragmentation of Andes-to-Amazon Connectivity by Hydropower
Dams, Anderson et al., Science Advances 4, pp. 2018 (link
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Study Suggests Hydroelectric Dams Causing Greater Impact on
Amazon Basin than Thought, Phys Org - News, 1 February 2018
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Congo River:
Grand Inga Hydroelectric Project: An Overview,
International Rivers Org (link
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Power Potential and Pitfalls on the Congo: Developing
Africa’s Cleanest and Largest Hydropower Opportunity,
Earthzine.org (IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society), 8 March
2010 (link
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Construction of World's Largest Dam in DR Congo Could Begin
within Months, The Guardian, 28 May 2016 (link
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Mekong River:
Dam Controversy: Remaking the Mekong, Nature Magazine -
News, 19 October 2011 (link
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Trading-off Fish Biodiversity, Food Security, and
Hydropower in the Mekong River Basin, Ziv et al., PNAS 109,
pp. 5609-14, April 2012 (#1201423109) (link
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Liberation of Soil Mercury:
Public Health and Economic Consequences of Methyl Mercury
Toxicity to the Developing Brain (link
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The Arctic is Full of Toxic Mercury, and Climate Change is
Going to Release it, 5 February 2018, The Washington Post (link
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Canada’s Big Dams Produce Clean Energy, and High Levels of
Mercury, 10 November 2016, The New York Times (link
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Mercury in Hydroelectric Reservoirs - Hydro-Québec and the
Mercury Issue, HydroQuebec.com (link
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Future Impacts of Hydroelectric Power Development on
Methylmercury Exposures of Canadian Indigenous Communities,
Calder et al., Env. Sci. Technol. 50, pp 13115–13122, 2016 (link)
Discussions of the preceding pay-walled article:
Quantifying the Hidden Environmental Cost of Hydroelectric
Dams, 9 November 2016 - ACS News Service (link
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Ninety-Percent of Proposed Canadian Hydroelectric Projects
May Expose Local Indigenous Communities to Methylmercury,
PhysOrg (link
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Strategies to Lower Methyl Mercury Concentrations in
Hydroelectric Reservoirs and Lakes: A Review, Mailman et al.,
Science of the Total Environment 368, pp. 224–235, 2006
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U.S. Department of Energy's
"Hydropower VISION - A New Chapter for America’s 1st Renewable
Electricity Source" (2016):
