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ChromaticAngel posted...

Did anyone explain where the 1,300GW of power comes from? Besides "more turbines at existing dams!" I mean.

Cause if you multiplied every dam we have by 15, we still wouldn't have 1,300GW.

I think the "more turbines at existing dams!" part was the crux of how he planned to do that. It would also require massively building up water, apparently 5000x the water Hoover Dam can hold behind it according to the guy who uploaded the pen and paper math. That was being generous too, because it assumed that all the water would be able to fall the entire height of the dam (which isn't true, that's only true for the water at the very top).

There are a few reasons why this is crazy. The obvious one is that it is way more power capacity added to existing dams than is believed possible. Secondly, the water assumptions apparently aren't realistic at all either.
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