Power from the lakes
Sir, —The New Zealand Electricity Department is criticised on the one hand for flooding every suitable valley to extract the maximum
electrical power, and on the other for not selling electricity hard enough. The department is in a cleft stick trying to satisfy both viewpoints, and in my opinion is being criticised unfairly. The hydrolakes are filled for us by solar energy and we should be grateful, and ready to make the necessary capital and ecological sacrifices for hydro developments. Imagine our share of the fossil fuels of the world as a big black lake of oil; we would know that as the level dropped it would never in a million years be replenished by the forces of nature. Once gone, it would be gone for ever, and so many engineers, though they like natural beauty, believe it is their duty to extract every bit of hydro power in order to save non-renewable resources. The ecological problems of the new hydro-lakes are not beyond solution.—Yours, etc., PATRICK NEARY. August 24, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33004, 25 August 1972, Page 10
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