Dams be damned: study finds large dams are too expensive

Mongabay
By Morgan Erickson-DavisMay 19, 2014, 12:23 pm93 pts
Hydroelectric power, supplied mostly from dams, provides approximately 20 percent of the world's electricity, an amount of energy equivalent to 3.6 billion barrels of oil. However, a recent study by researchers at Oxford University has found that large dams cost so much money and take so long to build that they…

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