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    Hydropower - Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydropower

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    Hydropower is a renewable energy source that uses water power and gravity to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. It accounted for 20% of global energy consumption in 2006. The advantages of hydropower include low production costs, long economic lifetimes of plants, low maintenance costs, and emission of no greenhouse gases. However, disadvantages include risks of dam ruptures, impacts on ecosystems from construction, changes to water flows and temperatures, and erosion downstream of dams. A balanced assessment of hydropower and other energy sources is needed.

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    Hydropower is a renewable energy source that uses water power and gravity to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. It accounted for 20% of global energy consumption in 2006. The advantages of hydropower include low production costs, long economic lifetimes of plants, low maintenance costs, and emission of no greenhouse gases. However, disadvantages include risks of dam ruptures, impacts on ecosystems from construction, changes to water flows and temperatures, and erosion downstream of dams. A balanced assessment of hydropower and other energy sources is needed.

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    Hydropower is a renewable energy source that uses water power and gravity to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. It accounted for 20% of global energy consumption in 2006. The advantages of hydropower include low production costs, long economic lifetimes of plants, low maintenance costs, and emission of no greenhouse gases. However, disadvantages include risks of dam ruptures, impacts on ecosystems from construction, changes to water flows and temperatures, and erosion downstream of dams. A balanced assessment of hydropower and other energy sources is needed.

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    Hydropower - Advantages and Disadvantages of Hydropower

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    Hydropower is a renewable energy source that uses water power and gravity to generate electricity without greenhouse gas emissions. It accounted for 20% of global energy consumption in 2006. The advantages of hydropower include low production costs, long economic lifetimes of plants, low maintenance costs, and emission of no greenhouse gases. However, disadvantages include risks of dam ruptures, impacts on ecosystems from construction, changes to water flows and temperatures, and erosion downstream of dams. A balanced assessment of hydropower and other energy sources is needed.

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    Hydropower Advantages and Disadvantages of

    Hydropower
    Hydropower is the energy generated by the water power,
    using gravity and buoyancy waterfall. It is the most used form of
    renewable energy. Once built, a hydropower plant, it produces
    energy without emitting greenhouse gases compared to fossil
    fuels. In 2006, total production of hydropower, TW 2998 was
    approximately 20% of global consumption. This represented 88%
    of energy from renewable sources.

    Advantages of Hydropower

    The advantages of hydropower is described in brief below.

    1. The main advantage of hydropower is that the production


    costs are eliminated;

    2. Hydropower plants have a higher economic lifetime;

    3. The maintenance cost of such sources of green energy is


    very small, since the equipment is automated and does not
    require a large staff during power generation;

    4. Given that hydroelectric power plants do not burn


    fossil fuels, they do not directly emit greenhouse gases.
    Although carbon dioxide is produced in the manufacture of
    equipment, these emissions are not comparable to those
    obtained from the energy of non-renewable fuels;

    5. Basins constructed for the production of hydropower, can be


    used for other activities such as water sports, aquaculture
    and irrigation agriculture;
    6. Hydroelectric dams may even become tourist attractions,
    and prevent floods by storing excess water;

    7. Practical her availability is throughout the entire year;

    8. Energy obtained can be considered clean and


    regenerative.

    Disadvantages of Hydropower
    In addition to producing electricity, river engineering may have other consequences
    on local development through construction equipment, infrastructure development,
    the development of tourism, creating jobs, irrigation, navigation, growing local
    taxes and other. The disadvantages of hydropower is listed below.

    1. Huge projects also involve great risks- risk of rupture


    (bursting) of the dam the dam help store a huge potential
    energy;

    2. Sabotage or terrorism threats to the safety area is


    another drawback of water power;

    3. Construction of hydropower can lead to imbalances in


    ecosystems and landscape change, and over time can be
    reduced river flow;

    4. Water accumulation can lead to thermal and chemical


    changes, in the depth of the reservoirs. Deposits, sediment,
    reached bottom may encourage the developmental
    accumulation of aquatic flora (plankton, algae) which under
    certain conditions can cause atrophy accumulation reducing
    the amount of oxygen and death of wildlife. Also great
    accumulations can cause local climate changes primarily due
    to water evaporation (fog);
    5. Erosion sediment is retained behind the dam so that the
    banks downstream of dams judgments are subject to erosion;

    6. Consequences of underground galleries drainage culvert is


    true massifs traverse if they are not full. If their fill they
    become sources of pressure on the geological structures that
    cross.

    Finally, hydropower and other energy sources should be valued properly for our
    own future.

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