Sentences with phrase «by hydroelectric»

Andreas Antonopoulos, one of the world's foremost Bitcoin and blockchain experts, says that Bitcoin mining can be used to utilize the excess power produced by hydroelectric plants that otherwise go to waste.

Leading a team for Conservation International, David Emmett began working in the region to protect critical otter habitat that had become degraded and was threatened by a hydroelectric dam proposal.

With only 6 % of the US electricity generated by hydroelectric stations the most they could realistically back - up through drastic cycling is a 0.5 - 1.0 % wind energy share, so we have to face that if we move forward with wind power as our main energy strategy the overwhelming majority of the back - up power will be fossil - fuel based.

Heavily reliant on oil imports and with an annual energy deficit of 3,478 GWh as of 2009, electricity in Lebanon is for the most part generated by hydroelectric and thermal generation at present and in addition, there are power reliability issues «such as load shedding, technical losses, and the aging of power plants», which again the addition of dispatchable renewable energy facilities is intended to counteract.

Even the power generated by hydroelectric schemes is endangered by reduction and variability in rainfall.

, methane flux from water retained by hydroelectric dams, open landfills and several others.

GENEVA — Scientists have found that some reservoirs formed by hydroelectric dams emit more greenhouse gases than expected, potentially upsetting the climate - friendly balance of hydroelectric power.

Windfarms in Fairbanks and Anchorage Alaska have done little to reduce fossil fuel use or CO2 because both intermittant and unreliable systems are balanced by hydroelectric power.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

The size of the reservoir created by a hydroelectric project can vary widely, depending largely on the size of the hydroelectric generators and the topography of the land.

The remaining ten percent is produced by hydroelectric and other renewable energy facilities.

The issue is the threat landslides pose to our electrical supply — dominated by hydroelectric dams.

Looking to do something that might legitimately make the world take notice, Josh teams up with a young upstart and bank - roller in Dena (Fanning) and an old friend Harmon (Sarsgaard) to purchase a boat, fill it with a fertilizer bomb and detonate it by a hydroelectric dam.

The state will buy electricity from the distillers for $ 41 per megawatt - hour, the same price paid for power generated by hydroelectric schemes.

Our manufacturing site is mainly powered by a hydroelectric plant and they do not use the same toxic chemicals that are often used as a wash overseas.

Not exact matches

Eighteen percent of all electricity in the United States was produced by renewable sources in 2017, including solar, wind, and hydroelectric dams.

When you include the deaths caused by the tragic 1975 collapse of China's enormous Banqiao Dam, hydroelectric can be considered one of the riskiest power sources.

For example, during the last major geomagnetic storm experienced by Earth in 1989, the entire Canadian province of Quebec went dark when a critical Canadian hydroelectric plant went down.

The company also thinks renewable sources will increase from around 2 percent today to 7 percent by 2035, while the prevalence of hydroelectric power and nuclear energy will remain mostly unchanged.

By one estimate, Quebec alone has the potential to develop another 40,000 megawatts of hydroelectric power.

Russia and the United States do not have significant hashing power yet, but there is evidence their mining activity is growing.The world's first full - service mining solution providerNestled in Wenatchee, Washington, located close to a number of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River, the Giga Watt Project is becoming a significant player in North American crypto mining.Giga Watt is fueled by five megawatts of power dedicated to mining resources, with an additional 50 in development.

Prices for electricity would be 4 percent lower by 2033 with a transition to more wind, solar and hydroelectric power than a persistent reliance on coal and natural gas, according to a report by Calgary - based environmental research firm Pembina Institute and Clean Energy Canada, a Vancouver - based organization that promotes renewable energy.

Interviewed by Pam Frampton of The Telegram regarding the governance of the hydroelectric development underway at Muskrat Falls, Labrador, as overseen by the Crown corporation, Nalcor Energy.

Human evolution: from bond fires started by rubbing sticks to hydroelectric power plants - from gazing at the Moon to actually going there - Indeed we are evolving!!!

The mills and facilities on Distant Lands farms are run by clean, renewable hydroelectric power.

We take great pride in running a completely sustainable operation, fueled entirely by geothermal and hydroelectric power.

The Facility Icelandic Glacial also takes great pride in running a completely sustainable operation fueled entirely by geothermal and hydroelectric power.

And there's long - standing political opposition by labor unions and lawmakers who have for years pushed to have power generated in the state rather than imported from Quebec, which has substantial government - run hydroelectric plants.

This is the case made by politicians from Niagara County, where Moses was the primary mover behind a hydroelectric power station, Niagara Falls State Park and a parkway, and where they say his name is actually a detriment to their tourism industry.

It will boost annual hydroelectric power production by $ 5.3 million, and annual recreational activity along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario by $ 9.1 million.

But one industry has sprouted, seemingly spontaneously, drawn not by tax incentives or the promise of grants but by the low - cost hydroelectric power that's available in a handful of Northern New York communities.

The study tracked the near - complete extinction of native small mammals on forest islands created by a large hydroelectric reservoir, built in 1986.

By 1996, through a local network of solar panels and small hydroelectric dams, EWS supplied «green» power to the entire village.

In a series of research papers, Schaeffer and his team determined that hydroelectric production in the Amazon would drop «somewhere between zero and 30 percent» by midcentury, he said.

It was humdrum stuff — until one official mentioned in passing that this tree - lined curve in the river, a popular picnic spot for Hungarians, was to be drowned by a giant hydroelectric dam being planned in secret by a much - feared state agency known simply as the Water Management.

Chinese officials staged a sudden about - face, acknowledging for the first time that the massive hydroelectric dam, sandwiched between breathtaking cliffs on the Yangtze River in central China, may be triggering landslides, altering entire ecosystems and causing other serious environmental problems — and, by extension, endangering the millions who live in its shadow.

A small but useful contribution in all three republics might be made by recommissioning small hydroelectric stations of the pre-Soviet period that powered small rural settlements.

The «not in my back yard» opposition to renewable energy systems is still a reality, the researchers said, and there are still some environmental concerns about virtually any form of energy, whether it's birds killed by wind turbine rotors, fish losses in hydroelectric dams or chemical contaminants from use of solar energy.

A World Bank study indicates that glacial melt it is likely to raise generating costs at hydroelectric dams on rivers fed by melt water.

The dam, part of the Gabcikovo hydroelectric scheme in Slovakia, is bitterly opposed by neighbouring Hungary, which was a partner in the project but has now pulled out.

As a result, the nation's hydroelectric generation dropped by almost a quarter compared with last year.

A study of one hydroelectric reservoir, Cedar Lake in Manitoba, revealed a likely release of about one kilogram of carbon dioxide for every kilowatt - hour of electricity produced by the reservoir's power station.

His students subsequently published papers on reducing the variability of wind energy by interconnecting wind farms; on integrating solar, wind, geothermal, and hydroelectric power into the grid; and on wave power.

Along these parameters, Beijing seeks to bolster infrastructure by constructing bridges, railways, roads, pipelines, hydroelectric dams, and much more.

Their society is turned on its head when a group of humans, led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke) and trying to restart a hydroelectric dam, stumbles across the apes.

Valeska Grisebach's Western is a more stately, sombre, slow - moving affair, which upends the tropes of the western genre by removing them to a novel setting - southern Bulgaria, to be precise, where a group of migrant German workers are constructing a hydroelectric plant.

In her latest film, «Night Moves,» a ragtag triumvirate of determined activists - cum - eco-terrorists, played by Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, and Peter Sarsgaard, decide to make a grand statement about over-consumption and the destruction of natural resources by blowing up a hydroelectric dam on the Oregon river near where they live.

Frustrated by continually escalating threats to the environment and by the deafness shown by political leaders, Josh (Jesse Eisenberg, «Now You See Me») an organic farmer who lives in an agricultural cooperative in Oregon, Dena (Dakota Fanning, «The Last of Robin Hood») a young college dropout with considerable family wealth, and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard, «Green Lantern»), an ex-Marine with expert knowledge of explosives, decide to blow up a hydroelectric dam as a protest against the desecration of the environment.

Innergex is growing more slowly than Algonquin, largely by building its own hydroelectric and wind facilities, rather than adding by acquisition.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.