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<div><font face="Geneva">Excerpt: "<font color="#000000">It's a
renewable energy source, but hydropower has its pitfalls. Its dams can
kill fish and other marine life and majorly disrupt habitat, and they
can also</font><font color="#262626"><u> end up
emitting</u></font><font color="#000000"> significant amounts of
greenhouse gases - a side effect that many of hydro's fellow
renewable energy sources, including wind and solar, don't
share.</font></font></div>
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"But there's one place with near-constant running water that
can be tapped for energy without causing environmental problems:
cities' drinking water pipes.</font><font face="Geneva"
color="#262626"><u> LucidEnergy</u></font><font face="Geneva"
color="#000000">, a Portland, Oregon-based startup that launched in
2007, is starting to capture the energy of water pipes, beginning with
a pilot project in Riverside, California and now with a full-scale
project in Portland.</font></div>
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"Gregg Semler, president and CEO of LucidEnergy, said his team
originally went into the business of hydropower by looking at ways to
capture energy from streams. But they soon realized that it was
difficult to predict the flow of a stream, and that generating
hydropower could be environmentally degrading. Pipes, on the other
hand, are existing-man made infrastructure, so equipping them to be
power producers doesn't present any environmental concerns. They
also pump water daily at a fairly constant rate, which allows for a
consistent flow of energy.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Geneva" color="#000000">"'What's really
interesting about Lucid is this is a new source of energy that's
never really been tapped into before,' Semler said. 'You take the best
of hydroelectricity and put it in the pipe'."</font></div>
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>http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/08/13/3661575/portland-water-p<span
></span>ipes-energy/</div>
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"The tendency for success to breed complacency and recklessness is
as ingrained in financial markets as it is in any other walk of
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1" color="#000000">Banks :
Barbarians at the vault.<i> The Economist</i>, May 15,
2008</font></div>
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"Access to more capital makes bigger crises feasible: every
now and then, somewhere in the world, one is going to happen.<br>
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"Is this because the same mistakes are made again and again, or is
each crisis unique? The answer is yes to both : each
crisis is unique, and the same mistakes are made again and
again."</font><br>
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<div><font face="Bookman Old Style" size="-1" color="#000000">"While
a bubble is inflating, reckless lending seems merely bold, and
appropriately well-rewarded."<br>
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<i>The Economist,</i> "A cruel sea of capital : A survey of global
finance," May 3rd, 2003.</font><br>
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"Three concepts are almost completely foreign to people who are
not ecologists: (1) natural ecosystems provide services on which our
economic, social, cultural and political systems depend; (2) when
these processes are altered, our quality of life declines; (3) when
the processes fail, life becomes very difficult or impossible.
As a result of this ignorance, conservation is seen by many as a minor
amenity benefiting a small cadre of birdwatchers or backpackers that
stands in the way of 'progress' that benefits all."<br>
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Brussard and Tull. "Conservation Biology and Four Types of
Advocacy."<i> Conservation Biology</i> 2007 21 (1) 21 -
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