It is estimated that we only use 3% of our damns to products hydroelectric power. The Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), with inputs from the Idaho National Laboratory (INL), executed the technical analysis and identified 54,000 NPDs (non-powered dams). It just doesn't make sense, with the price of oil and the pollution value of coal. Why aren't we utilizing this all ready made green energy
source.
Hydropower
is a green energy
source because we are able to harness electrical power by converting water into electricity.
Hydropower