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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
I never said hydropower was a bad thing.
You are just putting up strawmen where none exist.
But the time to build them was in the 1920s through WWII.
Hydro power is the only really large scale power generation that can cover the base load and is reliable.
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*You made a blanket attack against government.
*I gave an example of a public good provided by government,which continues to this day to pay dividends to US citizens.
*The economist's Great Depression didn't initiate until 1929.
*Unlike 1893,the robber barons and one-percenters didn't step in to rescue the economy.
*We didn't have a socialist president in office until 1933.So the 1920s is too early for a start.
*Since we didn't bomb Tokyo and Berlin in 1936,things progressed on to WW-II.
*Nationalizations didn't occurr until after Pearl Harbor.
*Hydropower was expanded through the war,but the premise was for gaseous diffusion of fissile material for the Manhattan Project.
*Only after Nagasaki,did the 'Dollar-a-year-men' have access to some of the socialist power,as we immediately transitioned into Cold War nuclear proliferation,which ate enormous quantities of power.
*Hydro's great,but we're already kind of built out on that?