Much of what one often hears about greenhouse gas emissions from dams being minimal is based on the world's
existing dams with measurements of emissions.
Not exact matches
Coupled
with scare tactics of eternal
dam - nation, and a system set up to ostracize non-believers, not to mention a history of torture, executions and war, it's been difficult for Atheists to even
exist openly in a society, let alone reach out to other Atheists.
«When Nkrumah was doing investment in infrastructure, some people who are still
existing hurled insults at him and told him he was destroying the country
with huge debts, but Nkrumah was optimistic to develop the country because he knew he was investing in the people of this country, and so he provided the Akosombo
Dam which is serving all of us today.»
It was created by an enlarging
existing lake
with the same name,
with the completion of a
dam in 1979.
So EVERY source of energy that has the slightest positive contribution to our energy needs is to be fought tooth and nail, bringing to bear the full force and majesty of our regulatory juggernaut to not only prevent the development of new resources but to destroy
existing resources (drive to destroy Hetch Hetchy
dam, which supplies power and a large part of the water for SF Bay area for example and will be replaced
with???) in the fight to «save the planet»?
In the case of El Hierro, unlike most of the
existing pumped storage systems worldwide, the reservoir has been created artificially just for storage purposes, instead of using an
existing hydro power plant
with a typical
dam on a river used to create the reservoir.
An opportunity
exists for a Senior Engineering Geologist
with experience in the design and delivery of mid to large
dam & infrastructure projects.