Okay, hear me out, I was just looking at pictures of beavers and thought to myself, what if someone used a beaver dam for hydropower? I mean my first thought is of course that wouldn't work...unless? I mean I know nothing about dam construction or hydropower, so I can't actually disprove this to myself. Why wouldn't this work? Or could it?

  • flan [they/them]
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    10 months ago

    beavers dam up ravines, i dont think there'd be much potential energy there to capture.

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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      10 months ago

      I don't know what this means

      edit: are you saying hydropower dams need to be built on a waterfall or something?

      • flan [they/them]
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        10 months ago

        Not necessarily that it needs to be on a waterfall or anything like that since usually the thing to do is make an artificial lake so the dam itself acts as the waterfall. What I mean is the volume of water is probably too low to be worth doing.