Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-31035787-20130307093710/@comment-2094219-20130311163510

Supertoastfairy wrote:

Yet people freak out about nuclear power, yet they don't freak out about dams used in hydroelectric plants? Engineering has really come along in the past 40 years or so. Speaking as a Geologist, we now know exactly where to build dams, on impermeable rocks, like shales, on horizontal beds, not steeply dipping beds like they used to, etc, etc. There's no reason to worry about dams any more, in developed countries we now know better than to build massive dams atop valleys with villages in.