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Site of City of Hastings, MN owned and operated, 4.4-MW hydropower project at USAE Lock & Dam No. 2
Image credit:Hydro Green Energy, excerpted

You may have seen the TreeHugger interview with Goldman Environmental Prize winner Yu Xiaogang where he talks about hydropower in China and the tradeoff between increasing power supply and the environmental and community concerns of doing so.

For some more info on the issues surrounding developing hydropower...

photo: toby

Back in June the US Department of Energy announced it was investing $90 million in advanced geothermal power research to help develop more of the vast power potential of geothermal. Now the DOE has announced the recipients of more federal funding to develop renewable energy technologies: Cleantech water power and solar power storage. The amount of funds for each isn’t as much of for advanced geothermal, $7.3 million and $67.6 million respectively. The lucky/worthy recipients are:...

photo by Alistair Howard

When most people think of hydro-electric power they probably think of large dam projects such as China’s Three Gorges Dam, India’s dams on the Narmada River , or closer to home (at least to my home) the Hoover Dam. Perhaps needless to say, big hydro-electric projects like this can generate a great deal of power, but there are significant environmental trade offs.