What will happen if the world's glaciers melt?
The Climate Question
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Hydro Power Plants Are a Renewable Energy Source
Navskarimov explains how melting glassiers might initially mean more water entering a system. But eventually, when it finally disappeared, you'd be left with droughts rather than floods. If there will be not enough water in reservoirs, you cannot provide country with t electricity. Hydro power plants use water to spin a turbine and make electricity. Less water in the rivers means less energyan the irony here is that hydro power is a renewable energy source.
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