We have a huge, vast, enormous, stupendous, MASSIVE overabundance of natural energy sources.
Saying that tapping into the water power that is everywhere is akin to "The last fruit on the highest branches of the tree" is more absurd than your first try at spinning it as an inconsequential contributor.
Well, if we keep what we have you can try swimming next to the intake of a nuclear or coal plant's cooling system in the summer and the outlet in the winter. But be careful, you already seem to have gone off the deep end and you are clearly in over your head.
Oh, and be careful of bacterial contamination in the water from all the dead fish.
Why power plants use so much water and what to do about it
By AMY HARDBERGER | Published: MARCH 29, 2010
Can you name the single largest user of water in the United States?
If you said power plants, you were right (see chart below)! More water is required to run power plants than any other industry. In Texas, approximately 157,000 million gallons (482,100 acre-feet) of water annually – enough water for over 3 million people for a year, each using 140 gallons per person per day – are consumed for cooling the state’s thermoelectric power plants while generating approximately 400 terawatt-hours (TWh) of electricity. Because of this, water is an important consideration in power plant planning.
In New York state, power plant water use is causing some big problems. Daily withdrawals of more than 20 million gallons have annually killed 17 billion fish in various stages of life. Regulators are trying to address the problem by requiring the installation of closed-loop cooling, which would reduce water requirements by 93-98%. Is that a good idea? It depends. Simply requiring one type of cooling system may not consider all the factors which is important because retrofitting all existing plants can be very expensive and can lead to unintended consequences. ...
http://blogs.edf.org/texaswatersolutions/2010/03/29/why-power-plants-use-so-much-water-and-what-to-do-about-it/
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