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[Paul]

Tim Streater wrote:
> In article <p32tqt$i1j$1 at dont-email.me>, Rene Lamontagne
> <rlamont at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Add Hydroelectric for charging up all these batteries.
> 
> Not everyone has mountains.
> 

You don't need to have an 800 foot head to run hydro.

http://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Hydraulic_head

    "Low head dams are usually classified as systems with
     head differences of around 10 meters or less. These low
     head hydro turbines are generally used in facilities such
     as run-of-the-river systems where there is a flowing river
     with little elevation change"

We have one of those *in town*, but it's closed now. There
may be more of these on other parts of our local river. Actually,
there's one a half mile from the dinky one, that provides
29MW. That's probably why they closed the tiny one, as it's
an "insult to megaprojects" it's so small.

And I don't even know if there is a listing for facilities
that small. I know there are more of them, but I doubt I
could find a map with them marked.

I just found a summary page for our river. It has *50* dams and
hydro stations on it. That's spread over a huge area. Who knew ?
(Apparently, not me.)  I guess somebody really likes free energy :-)

    "The combined capacity of the hydro-electric generating stations
     in the watershed is over 4000 MW, producing over $1 million
     worth of energy on a daily basis."  [10.4 cents per MW*hour]

That's a watershed draining into the Saint Lawrence river.

Holy shit.

And there is a map, with a boundary drawn for the watershed.
It looks to be a roughly square space 400km x 400km. More than
one river is involved.

I don't think our river passes through mountains, and
at a guess, the stations are all "low head". Some parts
of the river are wider, and could run more generators.
Nothing around here looks like Hoover Dam.

And in a different area of the province, we even pump water
into a reservoir for storage.

https://www.opg.com/generating-power/hydro/southwest-ontario/Pages/sir-adam-beck-pgs.aspx

Well, I'm kinda shocked now. And I thought we got all our
power from nukes. (That's where the tritium in our
river comes from :-) )

    Paul