This for example: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b6/Cataratas.jpg
If you don’t want to click the link, it’s the Iguazu Falls, Argentina and Brazil Border.
It’s basically a huge waterfall. To my understanding, it generates enormous amount of potential power, meanwhile every water power station I’ve seen is either flow of river or a dam. Could we not put a water wheel next to the waterfall or something?
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Yes. You could divert some of the flow and send it through a turbine. There’s two massive hydro dams at Niagara Falls, called the Sir Adam Beck Hydroelectric Generating Stations, and they produce a significant amount of Ontario’s hydropower.
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