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Originally Posted by Rafael Rothschild
Now, this is my question: The DR is also a very mountainous country, with what I believe (I'm not sure about this one) sufficient rivers to create a similar system of dams for energy supply. Why this has not happened in DR?
Is this an engineering impossibility?
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Raffy
I'm a civil engineer by trade and you bring up a very good question. I understand that there are dams on the island but as to why there aren't more given that this is a mountainous country I could only postulate that it may be due to the lack of rivers remaining with large enough watersheds and thus large enough baseflows to justify the investment.