Gigantic water reservoirs and dried-up rapids. The roar of the forest country's wild rivers is a memory. Hydropower has built the country. But it is a silent country.
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Is there an inherent aesthetic in the enormous dams and artificial river courses of hydropower? Could they even be beautiful?
Regardless of your stance on that question, it's clear that these facilities leave a mark on the landscape. The images shown here are all from the Stornorrfors hydropower plant a few kilometers upstream of the Ume River from Umeå. It is Sweden's largest facility with a production of nearly 2300 GWh per year.
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