India, April 27 -- Hunt for new sources of 'green' energy are on; here is one in Germany

Forget a giant dam, as you see in the visual, which comes with exaggerated positives about power generation and irrigation, and equally inflated traps about climate, sustainability, and livelihoods. In Germany, they contend that the answer is not blowing in the winds, surfing the sky, but still rolling in the waters. Unlike a dam, which implies a "big wall across the river," and a "large reservoir," which drowns settlements and landscape, the solution lies in a "swarm power plant." The latter is not a gigantic structure but a large group of small water turbines that work in unison, something like a school of fish which, despite several fish, moves as...