Inactive Pool is the minimum elevation to generate power. Dead Pool is the minimum elevation for water outlet at the dam. After this point, no water can make it downstream to the river bed below.
Sometimes the media thinks the Dead Pool measure is the point of no electricity and misreport it. Use caution when reading articles.
LAKE MEAD 1051 ft - current level 950 ft - inactive pool for Hoover Dam.
The current level of Lake Mead used to be the Inactive Pool level (1049 ft), but five of the turbines have been recently replaced with low-flow models. This allows hydroelectric generation with only 950 ft. I sure hope no one lied about the numbers just to ease along the approval of the project.
• JUST BUILD MOAR NUCULAR POWER LOL The Palo Verde Generating station (west of Phoenix AZ) is the largest nuclear power plant in the U.S., and the only plant that doesn't sit on a large body of water with which to cool it. Nuclear plants need cooling water, and Palo Verde is having trouble finding an economic source of supply. They use 65 million gallons of treated wastewater -- every DAY. As water becomes more scarce, treated wastewater becomes more expensive. There isn't room for another nuclear power plant.
Ah well, Lake Mead will have to do for now. They can always drawdown from their upstream reservoir, Lake Powell, amirite?
LAKE POWELL 3524 ft - current level 3490 ft - inactive pool for Glen Canyon Dam.
Lake Powell is in bad shape, too. Lake Powell is now restricting how much water they send downstream ("Suck it, Mead!") and they've had to take emergency measures. The decline at Powell may look on a graph to be experiencing a less severe gradient, but that's only because they're drawing down water from their upstream reservoirs: Flaming Gorge, Blue Mesa, and Navajo. Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Wyoming is currently in no danger, but they've been tapped to send 10 feet of their water to Powell, and that may increase to 15 feet by the end of the year 2022. Flaming Gorge can do this for 3 years or so.
Again, this is not a solution; only a delay. As the population increases, so does the need for electricity, water for human consumption, and water for agricultural irrigation.
CALIFORNIA Some of the Lake Mead/Hoover Dam hydrolectric power is doled out to California and Los Angeles et.al. Why doesn't CA just build desalination plants in the ocean? • CA PANEL REJECTS DESALINATION PLANT PROPOSAL LOL There was a proposal to build a $1.4 billion plant that would draw on ocean water, but it was unanimously rejected on May 12, 2022. >muh marine animals sucked into intake pumps >muh rising sea-level and tsunamis! will destroy plant >muh water will be too expensive! "We have lots of energy and water here." >they said as they sucked on bottled water from the Great Lakes.
Josiah Torres
Not my problem
Gabriel Parker
Water is wasted on feeding cows. Water is wasted on growing almonds Water is wasted by farmers because the laws require them to waste water, so they don't lose it.
Eh, it doesn't matter if shit goes really bad, Los Angeles will just murder all the people leaving "near by" for water.
*Near by means everything between LA and Texas, and LA and Canada.
Nobody cares about people living in wyoming, the dakotas, or the montana
Evan Evans
>inb4 water wars
Brody Bennett
They have an ocean right next to them
Dylan Watson
time has come to form a human chain of unemployed people with buckets and dump in water from the ocean. better to have electricity than fresh water
Sebastian Scott
Bump. Finally a quality thread.
Julian Myers
Jesus fucking. Everybody thinks Americans are stupid, but do you British fucks really think that people can drink salt water from the Pacific ocean?
William Jenkins
Why are you drinking nuclear waste water?
Aaron Anderson
Have you not heard of desalination?
Camden Myers
880 people could refill 25 million gallons in a 8 hour shift
Ryan Gutierrez
>Los Angeles will just murder all the people leaving "near by" for water. Los Angeles will be a gridlocked nigger filled death trap dumb faggot.
Jackson Cook
Electric cars I wonder eat how much of this energy. There is absolutely no shortage compared to the water we have. Plus draining entire lakes so you can drive a meme car.
Levi Turner
.... Yeah sure what ever. California Nuked these places Los Angeles gets their water from:
District No. 21 – Kagel Canyon District No. 40 – Antelope Valley District No. 36 – Val Verde District No. 37 – Acton District No. 29 – Malibu (Including Marina del Rey Water System)
Luis Anderson
Do you understand how energy intensive desalination is?
Nicholas Gray
cloud seeding
Robert Davis
bruh I made a solar still in science class. as long as its sunny out you get free fresh water
Jayden Howard
CALIFORNIA WEEBIN
ON SUCH A WINTER'S DAY
Carson Martin
HAHAHAHA I pissed off some loser from Wyoming.
Seriously you worthless leech. GO suck off your senator's dick as thanks for all the government welfare you keep getting that keeps your money-hole states livable.
daddy musk gonna save the day and drill a hole directly from the great lakes
Jose Walker
How long would it have taken for your still to make enough to flush your toilet?
Isaiah Butler
Why cant Californians learn how to evaporation
They even get free salt at the end of it
Benjamin Lee
coastline and import profits belong to the people who support them. you are a monopoly allowed to exist.
Jace Morales
>inb4 water wars You ain't kidding!
There's a river in Colorado called the South Platte River, and CO expects the population along it to increase another 40-70 thousand people. Nebraska has water rights to the South Platte, and they are planning to invoke an old compact from 1922(?) that allows them to buy Colorado land ... or simply seize it via eminient domain!! ... in order to build canals to take water from the river and send it elsewhere in Nebraska. The idea is that Nebraska needs to get a hold of this water first before increasing Colorado population can get dibs on the water in the future. As you can imagine, this is making Colorado angry.
Meanwhile, Kansas has won a Supreme Court against Nebraska, claiming that Nebraska is using so much water from the Ogallala Aquifer, that its drawing too much water away from the Republican River which Kansas has water rights to. So Nebraska has ended some agriculture in a particular region, simply so they can pump the water out the aquifer and into the Republican River so Kansas will shut up and go away.
Is it any surprise that Bill Gates has bought so much farmland ... for the associated water rights?
Cameron Roberts
Californians should be made to drink salt water and eat bullets, fag.
Lucas Scott
maybe if they stopped letting nestle pump the aquifers dry for pennies they'd still have the water they needed. Fuck california.
This shit happens nearly every 4-8 years. Caring now is retarded. web.archive.org/web/20130401082939/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/0 It was also retarded to think than Lake Powell and Lake Mead could be filled from the same source. It took Powell 14 years to fill up. So, there's water shortages...really? Who'd have thunk it.
Gavin Wilson
You're right!
Connor Adams
Who do you think is allowing los angeles to exist?
Dominic Lee
Oh yeah I'm so angry I'm shidding and farding. Face it faggot if SHTF You would be nigger food. You probably don't have 3 days of food or more than a half tank of gas.
