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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Masimatutu@lemm.ee to c/europe@feddit.de

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Nope, that's just regular hydroelectric. All hydro power plants have valves to control the flow and they do adjust them on demand, for turbine/filter maintenance, and/or hydrological event control.

Also, dam lake is a misnomer because lakes are naturally occurring. The correct term is reservoir. However, a reservoir can be natural and not dammed, like the oldest Czech pumped storage power plant at Černé jezero, which I visited. (The reservoir is a beautiful mountain lake and unfortunately, nature preservationists capped the water level changes to 4 cm, limiting capacity.)

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah I didn't know the correct term for it in English, in Finnish it's called "fakelake" or maybe more accurately "artificial lake", but fakelake sounds better

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Then there are ponds and pools, which can be either natural or artificial.