By Ramaswami Ashok Kumar, B.E., M.E., NEGENTROPIST. Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal, 299, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Mumbai-400007.
© 2024 Ramaswami Ashok Kumar
Re: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/the-years-worst-climate-news-you-havent-heard-about-2-3329411
Biggest source of clean power is hydro? Look at the hydroelectricks: The world hydro capacity is 1438000 MW. At 10 MW/Km^2 hydro occupies 143800 km^2 land area of the world to store water which forests do at one hundreth this use of land that forests require to store the same amount of water by charging groundwaters. So by removing the world's dams we will be releasing about 140000 km^2 or 14 million hectares for assisted analogous diverse forest regeneration.
Official policy must give top priority for natural forest regeneration. There are many ways for assisted natural forest growth. Look at this one fact for example: As noted in the brilliant book by Yuvan Aves, Intertidal- A Coast and Marsh Diary.Bloomsbury.2023: Bananas in the wild are known to accelerate the regeneration of natural forests. P 116.
This means charging groundwaters of the world every annual hydrological cycle by about 100 times the surface water storage capacity of the world’s dams in good time and restoring the rivers to flow free again. And for world climate to return to normal. This is because 92 percent of climate change is due to the world's dams(1). And the ecology to thrive. This means we will have nature as the bottomline of living.
References
1. Ramaswami Ashok Kumar. 2022. PERFECT DESIGNS: INDIAN SW MONSOON INTRA-SEASONAL VARIABILITY IS CAUSED BY THE WORLD'S DAMS
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This reveals the extent of assisted forest regeneration for hydro dams removed as a ball park estimate at least.
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