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The downsides of hydropower
Posted By Brahma Chellaney on June 30, 2022 @ 12:00
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[1] hydropower: https://www.iea.org/reports/hydropower
[2] low-carbon electricity generation: https://www.iea.org/reports/hydropower-special-market-report/executive-summary
[3] ecological footprint: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809426115
[4] significant amounts: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161947
[5] more greenhouse gases: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/1/011002
[6] study: https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/66/11/949/2754271
[7] 34 times more potent: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-bad-of-a-greenhouse-gas-is-methane/
[8] change: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019WR026751
[9] impede: https://acwi.gov/acwi-minutes/acwi2017/Presentations/04c_reservoir_sedimentation_and_sustainability_faqs.pdf
[10] delicate balance: https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2018/3022/fs20183022.pdf
[11] exposes: https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/
[12] retreating fast: https://asia.nikkei.com/Economy/Asia-s-megacities-are-running-out-of-water
[13] revealed: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/cpc-centenary-dam-building-baihetan-by-brahma-chellaney-2021-06
[14] displaced: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-17754256
[15] increasingly likely: https://www.ipcc.ch/
[16] evaporation: https://www.colorado.edu/today/2015/12/28/reservoir-evaporation-big-challenge-water-managers-west
[17] Mekong River Basin: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/china-dams-mekong-basin-exacerbate-drought-by-brahma-chellaney-2019-08
[18] expensive: https://www.hydroreview.com/business-finance/hydro-has-highest-average-construction-cost-of-any-generating-technology-in-u-s/#gref
[19] two-thirds: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1111-9?fbclid=IwAR015uips0lTMCfJmee_7uHZw53oIjGtFPnPVZTTv2jboGkzGwzpnmJtrIA
[20] 60,000 large dams: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/worlds-free-flowing-rivers-mapped-hydropower
[21] continues: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-45019893
[22] 3,700 significant dams: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00027-014-0377-0
[23] global hotspot: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2108038119
[24] most-dammed country: https://books.google.co.in/books?id=rP3bBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=In+addition+to+being+the+world%E2%80%99s+most+dammed+country,+China+is+the+global+leader+in+exporting+dams.+Its+state-run+companies+have+built+or+are+building+more+dams+overseas+than+al
[25] US$44 billion: https://www.bu.edu/gdp/files/2021/07/GCI_WP_017_FIN.pdf
[26] seismically active areas: https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/will-china-turn-off-asias-tap/
[27] scientists: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1367912010001537
[28] linked: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2009GL040349
[29] 87,000 people: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-04158-7_10