How things change. 1952 marked the completion of Hungry Horse dam. It's sole purpose was to create the needed electricity to power the Anaconda Aluminum Companies' plan for an aluminium plant in the town of Columbia Falls, MT. All of this was obviously a boon for all of the surrounding communities too. The aluminum plant was built and was successful for ohhhh, 30 years-ish. On and off again a couple times with some scandal-ism and typical political bull ****. It is now a defunct superfund site. Fast forward to today.
The dam remains and appears (to me) to be in good operating condition. Sooo, other than contributing it's yearly billion kilowatts to the over taxed grid of today, ( think electric cars) what other good can this dam contribute to the community who built it and lives in it's wake if, forbid, a catastrophe should happen? BITCOIN. They use the F*****G power for mining bitcoin.