Sentences with phrase «behind smaller dams»

Maeck's team decided to take a look at methane releases from the water impoundments behind smaller dams that store water less than 50 feet deep.

Their study, showing that more methane than previously believed bubbles out of the water behind small dams, appears in ACS» journal Environmental Science & Technology.

Not exact matches

In Brazil, for example, there are cases of small hydropower dams producing the same amount of power, but varying greatly in the sizes of reservoirs behind them.

Deemer went on to say that while dams and the water behind them cover only a small portion of the earth's surface, they harbor «biological activity» that can produce large amounts of greenhouse gases.

Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low - carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying habitat, displacing people and animals, and even spewing greenhouse gases from the large ponds created behind massive dams.