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While power plants offer a temporary solution, manatees becoming dependent on these artificial warm water sources is a concern. As energy systems evolve and these older coastal plants are decommissioned or upgraded, these crucial warm refuges could disappear, leaving the manatees vulnerable again, as biologists in the story worry.
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