Hello readers, it’s me, energy journalist Julian Spector. What a week that was. We had the return from winter holidays, Election Week Episode II, and an armed insurrection against American Democracy, all in a few days. I feel weird greeting people with “Happy New Year” now because it feels out of date already.
If only the miners had converted their vehicles to steam or electric. As to Kauai's hydro system, seems like it should be environmentally safe. Having just read John McPhee's "Founding Fish," he describes the terrible impact of rampant dam building on migrating fish (in case anyone is curious, the technical terms for migrating fish are anadromous and catadromous, with a whole set of more specific categories: amphidromous, potamodromous, oceanodromous, as well as the umbrella term, diadromous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_migration#Classification). To have hydro power without an impedimental dam is a wonderful feat of inventiveness, perhaps with a hydroscaping waterfall.
If only the miners had converted their vehicles to steam or electric. As to Kauai's hydro system, seems like it should be environmentally safe. Having just read John McPhee's "Founding Fish," he describes the terrible impact of rampant dam building on migrating fish (in case anyone is curious, the technical terms for migrating fish are anadromous and catadromous, with a whole set of more specific categories: amphidromous, potamodromous, oceanodromous, as well as the umbrella term, diadromous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_migration#Classification). To have hydro power without an impedimental dam is a wonderful feat of inventiveness, perhaps with a hydroscaping waterfall.