{"id":136544,"date":"2022-03-07T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/eco-friendlier-hydroelectric-tech-would-swap-dams-for-electric-trucks"},"modified":"2022-03-07T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T04:24:07","slug":"eco-friendlier-hydroelectric-tech-would-swap-dams-for-electric-trucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/eco-friendlier-hydroelectric-tech-would-swap-dams-for-electric-trucks","title":{"rendered":"Eco-friendlier hydroelectric tech would swap dams for electric trucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/eco-friendlier-hydroelectric-tech-would-swap-dams-for-electric-trucks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While hydroelectric dams <i>are<\/i> capable of generating a lot of electricity, they drastically disrupt the environment. Scientists have now proposed a simpler but still effective alternative, in which electric trucks replace such dams.<\/p>\n<p>In a typical hydroelectric facility, a dam is built across a river, causing a reservoir to form directly upstream of that dam. When a gate in the dam is opened, water from the reservoir flows through and drops down to a lower elevation. As it does so, it spins up turbines which generate electricity.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, formation of the reservoir involves the flooding of land which may previously have contained forests, crops, or even people\u2019s homes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hydroelectric dams are capable of generating a lot of electricity, they drastically disrupt the environment. Scientists have now proposed a simpler but still effective alternative, in which electric trucks replace such dams. In a typical hydroelectric facility, a dam is built across a river, causing a reservoir to form directly upstream of that dam. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}