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Hydro. Fifty years ago, the U.S. got a third of its electricity from dams. But many were destroyed or abandoned during the era of cheap oil, and that contribution has since dropped to less than 15%. But water power is now coming back into fashion.
Since dams have already been built on most commercially promising sites around the nation that have steep drops as well as fast and large river flows, the greatest enthusiasm now is for the restoration of "low head" dams (less than 65 ft. high) to supply power to local communities and...
A number of states are surveying their rivers to measure the hydroelectric potential. A study by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers concludes that there is an untapped power supply of 40,000 Mw from new and existing U.S. dams that have been allowed to fall into disuse, enough to...
Brent Backwelder of the Environmental Policy Center said yesterday two task forces have warned of the flood dangers posed by stream channeling and the construction of dams.
"You now have a sand-starved sea be cause of natural forces and man-made dams on the Rio Grande. Eventually, nature will have its way." Unless, perhaps, some way can be found to control the appetite of the beautiful, pounding waves that made Padre in the first place and...