ENV100Y5 Lecture 61: Module 6 ENV
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Hydropower, nuclear, and biomass are convenional energy alternaives. Three gorges dam = largest dam in the world according to some measures, there are other dams that compete with it in certain aspects (how you quanify deepest, width, etc) Villages, and historical sites were destroyed as a result of creaing the reservoirs (3 gorges dam) In the energy context, clean = no greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere: burning potenial for atmospheric emissions. Eroi (energy returned on investment): how much energy we need to put into it, in order to get that energy out of it: eroi calculaions are tricky, it depends very much on the speciic technology being used. So run of the river would have diferent eroi than impoundment approach. Disrupt natural cycles of looding and sedimentaion: ex: nile river (unexpected side efect) The nile lows towards the north through egypt and out into the mediterranean.
