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Stuff You Should Know

How Hydropower Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Humans have been stealing energy from flowing water for at least two thousand years. It wasn’t until the advent of electricity that things really got cookin’. All we need to do now is to work out the harmful environmental impacts of this green energy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.7

Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:41.4

Hey and welcome to the podcast.

0:42.9

I'm Josh Clark and there's Charles W. Chuck Bryan over there and Jerry's here too, somewhere,

0:49.5

just in spirit but digitally, virtually.

0:54.2

She's like Johnny Depp in Johnny Monex.

0:59.0

No, that's Kiana.

1:01.2

Oh, Pirates of the Caribbean?

1:03.8

Yes, it's what Jerry's like.

1:08.0

I've been singing Judas Priest all day because of this instead of Turbo Lover, I'm singing

1:13.1

Hydro Power.

1:14.1

Oh, that's pretty cool, man.

1:16.6

Can you give us a little couple of verses?

1:19.5

I'm your Hydro Power.

1:22.6

Well, I'm just failed to mention I'm wearing my leathers.

1:27.2

Okay.

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