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The
main
sources
of
energy
in
the
world
is fossil fuels - coal, oil and natural gas. Fossil fuels are non-renewable - this mean that nature cannot recreate them as fast as people using them up today. Sometime in the future, all of them run out and we will need other, renewable, sources of energy. Some renewable energy sources are being available now. One of them is water, what has been used to create energy for thousands of years. Today, hydro- or water power, generate by huge dams, is a major source of electricity in many parts of the world. But the hydropower have its own costs. When dams are building , the area above them is flooded, sometimes for miles. In some places, people loses their homes as well as the rich river soil in which they once growed their crops. In other places, wonderful wild landscapes buried forever under new, artificial lakes. Below the dams, the natural habitats of fish and wildlife in river valley is destroyed as the course of the river is changed. |