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Originally Posted by freebeard
My personal electricity needs are met by 5.3¢/kWh power from the same Grand Coulee Dam that Woody Guthrie sang about.
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You might be surprised at how much of that hydro power actually comes from wind - with the dams serving to balance load. 5100 MW, per this:
https://www.bpa.gov/Projects/Initiat...s/default.aspx
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Originally Posted by freebeard
11,600 years ago the sea level rose 300 feet. The North Sea was all inhabitated land.
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Depends on your definition of "inhabited". It's a lot harder to pack up and move in a world with a population of 7 billion or so, than in one where the population is somewhere between 1 and 10 million:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_...eep_prehistory