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If the turbines at the base of Hoover Dam turned at that low RPM, Vegas would still be a couple of honky tonk bars and a gas station instead of the great city it is.
Arizona and California get the lions share of the dam power.
Vegas gets about 350 MW.
The majority of Vegas power comes from natural gas fired generating plants, and a couple of coal.
NVEnergy, the company that supplies Las Vegas' electricity, leads the nation in the use of solar and geothermal renewable resources.
From 1937 till 1955 Vegas got all their electricity from Hoover Dam. Prior to 1937 it was powered by electricity purchased from the railroad and gasoline generators. Of course this was all done by NV Energy or their grandparent.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
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