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What are the advantages of hydroelectric power plant?

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It's "fueled" by a natural process, rain. You don't have to go truck in railroad cars full of coal or pipe in petroleum products. As long as there is no severe drought (and it would have to be very severe, as such waterways typically have a lot of locks etc.) you have power. Since it neither adds nor subtracts from the water, it is nonpolluting.

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