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Hydroelectricity – dams no longer required!

By on October 1, 2012 in dams, ECO FRIENDLY, electricity and water, green energy, green technology, hydroelectric, JOJO, jojo tank prices, JoJo Tanks, jojo tanks products, JOJO TENKE, jojo water tank, JOJO WATER TANKS, LOCAL TANK DEALERS, plastic water tanks, rainwater harvesting equipment, RAINWATER TANKS, SUSTAINABLE, TANK STANDS, TENK, WATER, water and energy, water conservation, water storage, WATER SYSTEMS, WATER TANK, water tank dealers, WATER TANK PRICES, water tanks, water technology

You don’t have to build dams to get hydroelectricity from water flowing through municipal pipes, says Dr. Daniel Farb, the Los Angeles immigrant who previously shook up the Israeli clean-tech power scene with his Leviathan Energy company’s award-winning Wind Tulip. The ecologically conscious physician recently unveiled his latest brainchild, a turbine that turns excess pressure inside […]

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Micro-Hydro Turbine Station – Harnessing Water Power

By on March 31, 2010 in green living, hydroelectric, JOJO TENKE, LOCAL TANK DEALERS, plastic water tanks, sustainable living, TANK STANDS, TENK, WATER, WATER TANK PRICES

A Lowveld Guide to Green Electricity (updated October 2012) We read a small article in the Farmer’s Weekly a few years ago that mentioned that the amount of coal burnt to create the electricity to heat water for the average bath (we are not talking about those huge Jacuzzi things) is about 50kg of coal […]

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Greenwashing Hydropower

By on March 25, 2010 in dams

Big dams have a serious record of social and environmental destruction, and there are many alternatives. So why are they still being built? Big dams have frequently imposed high social and environmental costs and long term economic trade offs, such as lost fisheries and tourism potential and flooded agricultural and forest land. According to the […]

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