New "Toy"...

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

The Hoover is a VERY impressive dam... Several TVA dams we have 'round here are somewhat impressive, too. NOTHIN' like THAT, though. Dated a gal back in '89 who lived in Turtletown, Tennessee, down in the FAR southeast corner of the state. LOTS of dams there, they were all built in the Thirties w/shovels. pickaxes, sweat & Dead Reckoming..

At one time, the electrical service rates, were the lowest in the US, as it didn't depend of fossil fuels, to generate the power.
Canada must have a lot of dams, as they refer to their power bills as "Hydro" bills!

[Sandy G]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

At one time, the electrical service rates, were the lowest in the US, as it didn't depend of fossil fuels, to generate the power.
Canada must have a lot of dams, as they refer to their power bills as "Hydro" bills!

Yep. TVA went head over heels into Nukie power, spent 3 truckloads of money, & has really little to show for it. I maintain if they'd spent that on developing better, more efficient hydro generators, instead of shoveling it into the Nookie rathole, we'd been a LOT better off.. Maybe they could have developed mini-generators that coulda been stuck w/little cost & disruption on the myriad of streams & creeks around the Appalachians, maybe NONE of 'em could run an Atlanta, Charlotte, Richmond, but they COULD have run several SMALLER cities & towns. TVA bumps up against the top of their generating capacity constantly on hot days, & increasingly, on the Zero days like we had this past winter. No new, LARGE generating plants have been built in nearly 40 years, but DEMAND has skyrocketed.. NOT a good situation.