spoiler: not remotely possible to scale large enough for total world needs.
"If we drained one meter from every upper lake, we would get 54 billion kWh of energy: about a sixth of the target capacity. If performed over seven days, the flow would be 375,000 cubic meters per second, or 125 times the normal flow over the falls."
"We would need 10,000 Raccoon Mountains to meet my baseline energy capacity"
spoiler: not remotely possible to scale large enough for total world needs.
"If we drained one meter from every upper lake, we would get 54 billion kWh of energy: about a sixth of the target capacity. If performed over seven days, the flow would be 375,000 cubic meters per second, or 125 times the normal flow over the falls."
"We would need 10,000 Raccoon Mountains to meet my baseline energy capacity"