that gem about water and debris flowing back upstream to clog the turbines was pretty funny....
Funny ? You really ARE a bit lost as regards some pretty BASIC hydraulics, aren't you.
You ever seen the bouyed "chain curtains" that are hung in front of the turbine discharges at MOST hydro dams ? Worked on them during emergency shutdowns to clear logs that made it over a spillway .....and then were SUCKED back up stream by the vortices ? soaked to the bloody bone and freezing your nuts off while trying to wield a heavy exothermic torch ?
I doubt it,.....
Maybe you oughta' grab your stash and head for Oroville to calm everybody with your nonsense, it's not going to sell well here, Bud.
GTC
I'm not gonna start hurling insults, but the way I understood that post had nothing at all to do "buoyed" steel curtains in front of turbines....it was the suggestion that somehow the river level below the dam was high enough to force water and debris back up into the turbines and back uphill into the lake....it's IMPOSSIBLE for that to happen...
