Week 2: Hydroelectricity

This week I decides to talk about the use of hydroelectric power. Hydroelectricity is one of the oldest forms of power. Even though in the U.S., we get most of our energy from fossil fuels, Countries like China and Canada use an abundance of hydropower and hydroelectricity makes up as much as 19% of the electricity used, although in the U.S., only 7% of electricity is made up of hydroelectricity. Although Hydroelectricity Does have lots of advantages, like not burning fossil fuels, however, it does have dissadvantages like how dams and other hydroelectric power plants are very expensive and sometimes, towns in the area of power plants being set up will have to be moved because of the reservoirs. Even though Hydroelectricity sounds great, it still has it's let downs, such as needing a LOT of water to get set up, which is the main reason why we don't have more hydroelectric powerplants set u in the U.S.

To learn more about hydroelectric power and also how they work, check out this link: http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/wuhy.html