Nature does not let niches to be empty

@ManAnimal they bury shit tons of population centers and such with their lakes tho

taking salt from water is VERY energy intensive

and then all the stuff in there decomposes and poisons the water

true

if you arent very careful

they don't bury ENUFF

saltwater is already poison if you drink it

Hydroelectric is the best solar-power we can get

artificial lakes are one of many means

city folk oppress people in the countryside

lol

And it can actually have a power storage

yup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Jx_bJgIFhI

potential energy is the best cheap form of storage

well it depends how big thw lake is

not really

yes really

you dont need a honking big lake for an artifical battery

artificial lakes are absolutely massive

even a modest tank on your roof can be rigged to turn a generator's shaft

so unnnecessarily large artificial lakes

do not need to exist to fulfill that purpose

pump bits of water to the roof using energy reclaimed from wind, sun and other

then open a valve and spin the generator when required

@Lucienne d'Anwyl You say like change is bad.
Yet 99% of species are extinct and many more will go extinct with or without human input
Nature will change, and one volcano will fuck your ecology like humans never could.
Humans are not that allmighty, and nature will recover in any case.
It is older than puny humankind

simple storage

minorchange isnt bad

but youre talking about burying

multiple towns

So?

for the sake of creating artificial lakes

yes, so?

which only benefit people in the city

Coastal places will be flooded naturally

and whose land they stole from people in the countryside

Will you jail the ocean?

lol; newsflash, unless your stop people from having kids, all we will have LEFT are cities in 100 yrs

look at Europe?