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When the water level rises, the cycle begins again. In essence, hydroelectric plants convert atmospheric carbon dioxide into methane gas and methane gas is 21 times stronger than carbon dioxide (Graham-Rowe). Scientists are still unsure of the exact damage caused by man-made reservoirs and hydroelectric plants but the issue is beginning to gain prominence in the scientific and political communities (Graham-Rowe)...
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Scientists are still unsure of the exact damage caused by man-made reservoirs and hydroelectric plants but the issue is beginning to gain prominence in the scientific and political communities (Graham-Rowe). The problem is serious enough that Philip Fearnside from Brazil's National Institute for Research in the Amazon in Manaus stated that in 1990 the greenhouse effect of emissions from the Curua-Una dam in Para, Brazil, was more than three-and-a-half times what would have been produced by generating the same amount of electricity from oil (Graham-Rowe)...
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