Okay, hear me out, I was just looking at pictures of beavers and thought to myself, what if someone used a beaver dam for hydropower? I mean my first thought is of course that wouldn’t work…unless? I mean I know nothing about dam construction or hydropower, so I can’t actually disprove this to myself. Why wouldn’t this work? Or could it?

    • Yllych [any]@hexbear.net
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      5 months ago

      Beavers live in the lodge not the dam but still I don’t think a beaver dam is gonna hold up a big ass turbine

    • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      5 months ago

      I have no idea how beaver dams work, this was pretty much just a shower thought. I assume though the beavers are living in dry areas and the turbines would go in the water where the beavers are not.