A small 7 megawatt hydrodam in South Africa provides electricity for thousands. Will decentralized power be the future?

India has over 400 micro hydro private projects being builtEr, no. What actually happened is that some govt bueracracy, in charge of identifying hydro sites, has supposedly identified 400 possible sites. You'll notice not one single cold hard economic fact, such as the cost of developing these sites, the reliability of the water sources, or any of the possible ecological or sociological downsides.

You'll also notice the passing mention of help from various govt and UN agencies. This means that no businesspeople saw this as a moneymaker... Not a good sign. You'll see this over and over at all the money-losing sites-- tide power, underground pumped storage, etc, etc, etc... it's always some clueless govt agency that funds these things, pumping million of OUR dollars into projects that nobody would fund with their own money, as they're clearly infinite money and energy sinks.In general, if you run the simple numbers, any site generating under a megawatt cannot under any circumstances, pay for a single staff person, much less the expected interest expense and cost of maintenance.

They're inifinite money sinks. Ancient_Hacker 59 months ago.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.