Jordan Harbinger

Plant matter getting trapped and then something, something emissions.

Yeah, there's only so many rivers you can dam up before you run out of the ability to do this.

By the way, I looked up why this happens, if you want to hear.

So hydropower plants create emissions primarily because of the decomposition of organic matter in the reservoir.

So when you dam it up and you make that huge lake,

All of that flooded vegetation decomposes and it does so anaerobically.

So it produces methane as a byproduct, which is one of the worst, you know, sort of greenhouse gases.

And then that just goes into the atmosphere through diffusion or bubbling up from the sediment.

Imagine you flood several hundred acres or whatever.

All that stuff just turns into one of the worst greenhouse gases and then goes into the environment.

You could also argue that making the concrete creates a lot of CO2.

I mean, it's just sort of like there's going to be emissions with everything.

It just matters how much emissions it saves in the future.

I think that's really the important part, right?

And so... You need a difference in elevation.

So it's hard to find the exact natural circumstances that you can do this.

And of course, as the human population grows and we develop more areas, it's going to be less possible to do this, right?

Because if you go, oh, we can do this, we just have to flood St.

Louis.

We're not doing that, right?