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Default OT - More on generation (sigh) but what is the alternative to coal?

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Tony Bryer wrote:
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:06:59 +0000 Nightjar wrote :
Hydro is good, if you have the places to
build it, which Britain is fairly short of.


But it that because the focus has been on huge dams. After a visit to
Rochester, NY, where I saw several small hydro plants along the river I
suggested here that such a thing might be possible in the UK at places
like Teddington Lock and it may yet happen http://www.hamhydro.org/


there's also a small one on the River Wey at Guildford

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