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Cool stuff at the repulse hydroelectric power station

#Mountain marvel: how one of biggest #batteries in #Europe uses thousands of gallons of #water to stop blackouts | #Energy industry | The Guardian

#GravitaionalBatteries are very reliable.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/may/24/europe-battery-gallons-water-dinorwig-wales

#Environment #RenewableEnergy #Renewables #Hydroelectricity #UK #Wales

#Wordweavers 14 May 'If your MC resolved their biggest challenge, what issue would they take next?'

Electricity

NutJob has the personal stuff sorted.

He's good with local power generation, site specific facilities, a localised wind turbine or a mini hydroelectric plant.

What Wolfland needs (everywhere needs) is a distribution network and electricity available 24/7 the way it used to be before *The Decimation*.

#scifi #CopperWolf #stem #ClimateChange #survival #WindTurbines #HydroElectricity

A small wind turbine with six blades, mounted on a shallow pitched roof of a domestic home

Rain could be a clean way of generating lots of electricity

Rain could be a clean way of generating lots of electricity #rain #water #hydroelectric #renewable #electricity #hydroelectricity

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2476820-rain-could-be-a-clean-way-of-generating-lots-of-electricity

#CleanEnergy powered 40% of global #electricity in #2024, report finds | #EnergyIndustry | The Guardian

Still a way to go.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/08/clean-energy-powered-40-of-global-electricity-in-2024-report-finds

#Energy #Electricity #Environment #Renewables #RenewableEnergy #NuclearEnergy #LowCarbon #WindEnergy #SolarEnergy #HydroElectricity

_The Evening Post_, 22 March 1924:
HYDRO-ELECTRICITY
TAUMARUNUI WORKS OPENED
"COMING CITY WITH A GREAT
FUTURE."
——
(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)
TAUMARUNUI, 21st March.
The hydro-ele[c]trical works erected by the borough at a cost of £521,000 [ca. $64M today] were officially declared open by the Prime Minister this afternoon in the presence of a large gathering of townspeople at #Piriaka, about five miles from #Taumarunui.
The works are said to be the second of the kind erected in the Dominion. The power generated will… supply the town and the district for many miles around. The power is obtained from the Wanganui River…
Mr. Massey… said that Taumarunui had made wonderful progress and was no doubt a coming city with a great future before it. He referred to the general development of hydro-electricity throughout the Dominion… later [in the power-house] the Prime Minister switched on the electric current amid loud applause.…
To-night the Prime Minister will be entertained to a dinner… and will later address citizens in Main street, which has been festooned with coloured lights for the occasion.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240322.2.114

#OnThisDay #OTD #PapersPast #HydroElectricity #PowerGeneration #WhanganuiRiver #NewZealand

Black-and-white photo: Road to Taumarunui under water and power house almost surrounded. 1924. Description: Showing the road to Taumaranui under water and Taumaranui’s new hydro-electric works at Piriaka almost surrounded by flood waters from the Whanganui River on 5 April 1924. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 17 April 1924, p. 36. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19240417-36-01. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/247053

Black-and-white photo: The rising waters viewed from the entrance to the canal. 1924. Description: Rising flood waters on the Whanganui River viewed from the entrance to the canal at the hydro-electric power station at Piriaka, near Taumarunui. Citation: Supplement to the Auckland Weekly News, 17 April 1924, p. 36. Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections AWNS-19240417-36-02. https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/247054

In addition to those #water #conservation programs, the #InflationReductionAct set aside hundreds of millions of dollars for projects aimed at keeping #ColoradoRiver tributaries #clean & #healthy. Conservation groups, small nonprofits, Native American tribes, & local governments were assigned federal money for a bevy of projects that included #Wildfire prevention & #HabitatRestoration.

#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate

That is no small feat, as leaders of the states that use #ColoradoRiver #water are caught in a #legal standoff about how to share it going forward.…

"Having this appropriated funding suddenly taken away undoes years & years of very careful collaboration among the #states in the #ColoradoRiverBasin," Castle said, "& threatens the #sustainability of the entire system."

#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate

#Water users whose #grants have been paused said they are asking the federal govt for more info & getting little in the way of answers. The #FederalAgencies in charge of Western water did not respond to NPR's requests for comment [probably because they were fired by #Musk].

#Conservation programs like the one sending money to #California #farmers have been key in boosting water supplies in major #reservoirs.

#Trump #Idiocracy #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate

…Some #water experts say they are surprised to see these water conservation programs frozen by #Trump's executive order, since they do not appear to be in line w/the president's stated priorities of eliminating #diversity programs & boosting domestic #energy production.

"These are not woke environmental programs," said Anne Castle, who held federal water policy roles…. "These are essential to continued ability to divert #water."

#Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #idiocracy

The 2022 #InflationReductionAct allowed President #Biden to designate $4B for #ColoradoRiver programs, including big sums for programs that pay #farmers, #cities & #NativeAmerican [#IndigenousPeople] tribes to #conserve Colorado River #water &, instead, leave it in those #reservoirs. The payments are compensation for money they can't make by using water to grow crops or for other uses.

#Trump #Idiocracy #PublicDisservice #USpol #Hydroelectricity #DrinkingWater #Agriculture #economy #Climate

Funding Freeze Includes Payments to Keep the #ColoradoRiver Flowing

The first EO #Trump signed…,"Unleashing American Energy," wouldn't seem to have a direct impact on how much water is in the Colorado River….

The order…aims to "unleash America's affordable & reliable energy & natural resources," by ending "burdensome & ideologically motivated regulations” [read: #ClimateChange solutions & #conservation efforts]

#DrinkingWater #agriculture #economy #hydroelectricity
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5302718/trump-funding-freeze-includes-payments-to-keep-the-colorado-river-flowing

"Pearkes says Canadians underestimate the powers they have, like the treaty, which she described as a "sharp" negotiating tool as it threatens flood control and reliable electricity the U.S. has come to rely on.
#hydroelectricity #BC #cdnpoli #uspoli
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/columbia-river-treaty-trump-1.7462660

New paper in Biological Invasions using @gbif mediated data:

Impact of Urochloa subquadripara #invasion on #hydroelectricity generation: a risk analysis 🇧🇷

#CiteTheDOI: ✅

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-025-03529-0

Grim climate news continues as hydroelectricity falters, deforestation accelerates for biofuels and coal stages a resurgence in India, highlighting challenges in the global energy transition. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/12/30/world/years-worst-climate-news/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #hydroelectricity #deforestation #biofuels #coal #climatechange #pollution #energy #oil #electricity #indonesia #china #india

As Drought Shrivels Hydropower, Zambia Is Pivoting to Solar

"#Zambia has lost $1.3 billion due to the energy crisis, equivalent to 5 percent of gross domestic product, says an economist.

As #ClimateChange threatens more frequent and intense droughts, Zambia will remain vulnerable to such crises so long as it relies on #hydroelectricity. That’s why the nation has recently pivoted to a more predictable type of renewable energy: solar."

https://e360.yale.edu/features/zambia-drought-hydro-solar-power