Which one requires more eminent domain to buy out and displace people who don’t want to sell so that a wind farm or lake large enough to be used for hydro can be made?
The environmental movement is, of course, governed by liberalism which in order to survive must continually go one up on whatever was done yesterday. So,if someone puts up a windmill, the next guy has to put up ten. Then, to prove the windmills are the future then next guy has to tear out a hydro-electric dam that works silently with renewable energy, but doesn’t fit the new paradigm.
In the NW where hydro is the only power generated for a very long time they want to replace all the dams with windmills. Save the fish kill the birds!! That is how logical the environmentalists are.