[FRIAM] speed vs. rpm (was English and "conservatism")

[Marcus G. Daniels]

my bad, partially:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7046
>
> In a study to be published in /Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies 
> for Global Change/, Fearnside estimates that in 1990 the greenhouse 
> effect of emissions from the Curuá-Una dam in Pará, Brazil, was more 
> than three-and-a-half times what would have been produced by 
> generating the same amount of electricity from oil.
>
> This is because large amounts of carbon tied up in trees and other 
> plants are released when the reservoir is initially flooded and the 
> plants rot. Then after this first pulse of decay, plant matter 
> settling on the reservoir's bottom decomposes without oxygen, 
> resulting in a build-up of dissolved methane. This is released into 
> the atmosphere when water passes through the dam's turbines.
>
I doubt in Nevada and Eastern Washington (my examples) there would have 
been comparable biomass, though.