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...women played host to a regatta for the first time in weeks, competing in the Women’s Victorian Coffee Urn on the Charles River on Saturday. Sunday’s winds proved to be too much, ending the regatta after just a day’s events. Harvard was one of 17 schools competing, racing 16 times on the way to a second-place finish, seven points behind Navy...
Wayne Krouse has a seductive idea: dam-free hydropower. In a year, his start-up, Hydro Green Energy of Houston, plans to have a pair of turbines pumping electricity from under the Mississippi River at Hastings, Minn.--a town willing to give a new idea a try. "Everybody likes a science experiment, and this is just a big science experiment," says Tom Montgomery, Hastings' public-works director. The barge-mounted turbines will be unconventional, but Krouse's design yields twice the energy of earlier versions--and doesn't require new dams, which take years to license...
...Alternative-energy developers are studying numerous small hydro projects, mostly along the coasts. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued 11 three-year "preliminary permits" for hydro, with installations at locations including Puget Sound in Washington, San Francisco's Golden Gate and New York City's East River. An additional 38 applications are pending. Hydro developer Verdant Power Inc. already has fish-monitoring equipment in the East River, with plans to install two turbines in November and four more early next year...
...last two decades has been a leader in sustainability. I make the case that if Dow weren't around, clean water would be an impossibility. Our founder discovered a way to liberate chlorine from salt. Today a villager in Africa carries pots 12 hours a day to and from river streams to bring often contaminated water to her family. But she does not have access to chlorine. So how can we enable ways to give that village access to pure water...
...make money with affordable technologies. We're making membrane systems that remove arsenic from river water. It's a new product, but I'm not just selling a membrane system--I'm making pure water. That means you don't have to walk 12 miles for water. You can get educated. Your children don't get sick. I want the whole corporation to be driven this way. It's embedded in our value proposition going forward...