I love innovation and here's one that I wish I would have thought of. Lucid Energy of Oregon is building pipes that have inline turbines in them that uses the natural flow of water in a city's water system as it moves to houses and businesses to generate electricity. It will capture enough energy from Portland's water system to power 150 homes. Brilliant! This is the sort of de-centralized power project that cumulatively could over time help us to depend less on oil (and the resulting potential vulnerability) for our power needs.
www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/01/portland_company_that_built_ci.html#incart_m-rpt-1
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