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What does hydro power look like?

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13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

Originally it looked like a streem of water flowing past a mill where corn was ground into flour, but today hydro is usually a great dam across a river with a huge lake behind it. The water is used to turn turbines to generate electricity.

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