Should work now.
pie in the sky,...
fully 25% plus of all dams which exist in the USA are at high to significant levels of hazard potential,...
what the author of the article fails to mention is that to utilize these (or any existing dams) for electricity production, those dams will first have to be "brought up to code",...
the expectation for most of the deficient dams is to allow their return to "wild river" status as they age, not to spend billions turning into trillions to bring them up to code and then electrify them,...
the article's projections are a financial non-starter:
in the last eight years the government has plunged ten trillion dollars deeper into debt,...
as much money has been debited to the national credit card in the last 8 years as in the preceding 225+ years,...
over the last ten years for every dam refurbished under federal aid programs to non-deficient or low hazard deficient status, another two dams have slipped into a significant hazard or a high hazard deficiency status primarily due to age and regulatory standard creep as per the National Inventory of Dams (NID),...
the average age for the 84,000+ dams in the US of A is >50 years old (not all dams are listed, inspected or classified in the NID),...
and with all of this money spent, and what improvements have been made, the number of deficient dams in increasing, not decreasing,...
we simply cannot afford the author's projections,...
on a side note:
the federal government has many dams owned and/or regulated by various federal agencies,...
these total to about 37200 dams (there are ~80,000 dams in state, local or private hands),...
of these federal dams ~4600 are deficient and pose a high hazard to downstream communities,...
~3400 are deficient and pose a significant hazard to downstream communities,...
9 of these federal dams are NRC dams, none (as in 0) of these NRC dams pose a high or significant hazard to downstream communities,...
the NRC is the
ONLY federal agency to have
ZERO dams in either a significant hazard or high hazard deficiency status,...
ALL dams pose at least a low hazard to downstream communities, there is no 0 hazard associated with dams,...
I could go on, but you should be getting the picture,...
it's a non-starter, we cannot afford it,...
