Anyways, yeah damming a river and drastically cutting the flow cuz you are using all that water to irrigate fucking golf courses is gonna wreck everything, but there can be a mixed thing where the river is damed but keeps the same flow so flash floodings are prevented.
I guess this probably reduces electricity output somehow? And definitely you wont be able to irrigate all those fucking lawns
Yes but eventually the damn is always full and you use a constant flow equivalent of the mean yearly flow of the river before daming to produce electricity, right?
Otherwise you wouldn't be able to output the same year-long, right?
Anyways, yeah damming a river and drastically cutting the flow cuz you are using all that water to irrigate fucking golf courses is gonna wreck everything, but there can be a mixed thing where the river is damed but keeps the same flow so flash floodings are prevented.
I guess this probably reduces electricity output somehow? And definitely you wont be able to irrigate all those fucking lawns
Probably the other way around since power is proportional to heigth of the water level and flow. The less you use for irrigation the more electricity.
Yes but eventually the damn is always full and you use a constant flow equivalent of the mean yearly flow of the river before daming to produce electricity, right?
Otherwise you wouldn't be able to output the same year-long, right?
A bit less due to evaporation losses but yes.
There should be more solutions to un-disrupt migration inside the river