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In the high-stakes world of clean energy technologies — where even the slightest engineering tweak can mean the difference between market leader and also-ran — developing a system solely around biological designs might seem like an unusual strategy. Yet Sydney, Australia-based BioPower Systems, in seeking to prove the old dictum that... (Read more)

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Obviously, the "Tidal Stream" is a much more fish-friendly system. Spinning blades chop up whatever flows through them. That's why kitchen blenders work so well.

I think that most of these inventors have dollar signs in their eyes, don't even take the time to first comprehend and copy Nature, before they come up with their environmentally-disastrous inventions.


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