When there is plenty of rain fall to supply water, it is good but if there is not enough rain water to keep the flow in the rivers up then it limits the amount of power which can be generated.

SO, there might be a possible limit on the number of coal fired or nuclear power plants built on the rivers because of the increase of the “cooling” water temperatures.

The more electric power we use, thereby the more heat added to the environment, whither that electric power is green energy or not.

Additive Heat Polution
The higher the population, the more water they use and the more energy devices they use. Automobiliesare good examples with most of their heat being exchanged to the atmosphere.

Without getting too technical, it takes a lot of heat energy and difference energy transformations to produce electrical power. As the electrical power is generated, it is also being used, with the energy going back through the different energy transformations with all of the energy being given up as heat. Where does this heat go from all of the electric power being generated world wide, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year?

If you agree that every heat source is “additive” to the environment? My main point was that as the waters, used as a “heat sink,” heat up, depending on the availability of the water, this could definitely be a limiting factor of how many steam generating plants could be operated along the water ways.

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Thermal, or Heat, Pollution

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/article-206790/environmental-pollution

Long-Term Energy Production and Global Heat Pollution

http://www.roperld.com/Science/EarthRadiation.pdf

What is heat pollution, what causes it and what are the dangers?

http://www.lenntech.com/water-pollution-faq.htm

July 26th, 2010 at 9:05 am
What I just heard Boone say was that China has control of oil in Iraq (at least some
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David, you made some good points about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq.
The invasion of Iraq has resulted in the loss of a lot of our Nations worth and a possible misuse of our military powers and at this time, there is much evidence in favor of “we were lied to”

There are people who apparently think they would be not be affected by a deep depression and are wanting this administration to stop spending the money needed to prevent another deep depression, trying to save jobs and creating jobs by trying to get our private sectors to start reinvesting to get our manufacturing base reestablished in the US.
Why have we continuously lost so many of our manufacturing plants over the years? I suppose it goes back to why we have gradually lost the millions of manufacturing jobs and the millions of service jobs due to the development of the global corporate monopolies, investing in and “racing to the “low labor countries”, after our Government Leaders have gotten the so called “free trade agreements” with these low wage Countries.
From this point on, it turns into a longer time period of making the corrections needed, more complicated story which involves all of goods stocked in the “big retail stores” with labels indicating the items are made, manufactured, assembled, and are the “products of other countries, including food products.
It is the policies of “capitalism” at it are best for maximum profit margin. Which in their case, history will always repeat itself with Capitalism finding and “creating” the lowest labor cost possible?

We continue to need more production jobs created here in the US by the private enterprises and by the government stimulus recovery money for work on our infrastructures while continuing to maintain supplements for the start up of businesses for manufacturing the same goods which are now being imported by the global corporations monopoly groups.

As most of us know, the consumers here in the US have an accumulated trade deficit of nearly a trillion dollars over the years with the Global corporations having their goods made in the low wage countries. These same companies at earlier times manufactured and exported their goods from the USA. Now at this time, we need those jobs back here in the US and we need to have more manufactured exports, which also creates jobs here in the USA.
If you think, about the resulting circumstances of what has transpired in this build up of “The Global Economy” or as some call it, “The Race to the Bottom.” Already we have been seeing the affects of what the global economy has done to the US economy, National Debt, with record trade deficit, the workers’ wages and the loss of jobs.

As we start getting our manufacturing base back, it will require more energy supplies and if we can supply these energy sources from within our country and not have to depend on imported sources, it will benefit our economy more.
What we have to realize is that if we are not able to get the private investors to start reinvesting here in the US for creating private sector jobs instead of depending entirely on the US Government/tax payers’ unsustainable borrowed money sources. then if you think about it, our energy consumption of all forms would drop very sharply along with our consumption of imported goods from the global corporate monopoly groups.

Friends, what is next? America’s assets (land, resources) may be next, if we don’t solve this deficit with China, and stop shoveling money out of our country for OPEC oil. National security issue–you bet!

Why does the US not have an energy strategy? Why did the US not develop a mass transportation system along with the Interstate Highway system? Who lobbies the elected leaders of our Government?

If the US ever gets it’s strength back we will need to get our trade deficit back in balance and start increasing our manufacturing base through the private sectors with the help of the Government support/leadership, while converting, using our energy resources.

The US cannot isolate itself from the rest of the world but we do need to start having more of the control and say instead of being the dumping ground of the global corporations’ monopolies.