Sentences with phrase «by hydroelectric dams»

, 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Photo: The desolated village of Arenal, with a main street paved by lava, was covered a few years later when Costa Rica's largest hydroelectric project, the Lake Arenal Dam, created an extensive water reservoir.

I know that you have been deeply troubled by the environmental disruptions in China and the enormity of their consequences, in particular the Three Gorges hydroelectric dam project.

«The House at Kawinal,» the artist's first solo exhibition in the US, will present a recent performance for video, Life in His Mouth, Death Cradles Her Arm (2016), together with a new body of sculptures inspired in part by the artist's research into the effects of the construction of the Chixoy Hydroelectric Dam in Guatemala in the early 1980s.

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The Indian government has put large hydroelectric projects on the Indus in Kashmir, and the vast majority of electricity created by these dams is routed south out of the state of Jammu - Kashmir.

But IMHO in following the dam constructions and flow and sedimentation delays, it was pretty clear that for several years the Carribean was impacted by the changes to the Orinoco from huge hydroelectric projects in the region.

On the one side are entrenched business and political interests dead - set on building a massively impactful hydroelectric dam, unmoved by the social, environmental, and cultural upheavals the project entails.

Rather than offering one - size - fits - all solutions that ignore the differences between places and people — the monocultural landscape of the American lawn, the hydroelectric dam on the salmon run, the factory built to overcome the rules of the natural world — cradle - to - cradle designs are informed by the recognition that all sustainability is local.

Motion means kinetic energy, which can be captured, just like the energy in moving water can be captured by the turbine in a hydroelectric dam.

Berta Cáceres, a Goldman prize recipient in 2015, was killed by gunmen in her home in March 2016 after leading a grassroots campaign against a hydroelectric dam proposed in her native Honduras.

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The / annual Production of electricity by the dam is 112GW The hydroelectric power station in Solina was first used in 1968.

In Rio Blanco on February 20, 2016, Berta Cáceres, COPINH, and the community of Rio Blanco faced threats and repression as they carried out a peaceful action to protect the River Gualcarque against the construction of a hydroelectric dam by the internationally - financed Honduran company DESA.

A recent study conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for the U.S. Department of Energy, the New Stream - reach Development Resource Assessment, finds that 61 gigawatts (GW) of hydroelectric power potential exists at waterways without existing dams or diversion facilities.

I describe a recent resurgence in the construction of hydroelectric dams, both large and small, around the world, spurred, in substantial part, by their newfound description as a form of «clean energy» capable of mitigating the greenhouse gas emissions largely responsible for anthropogenic contributions to global climate change.

The struggle over dams in China's west has been brewing for years, fed by the kind of concerns that typically dog hydroelectric projects — land grabs, relocations, corruption, environmental damage — along with the less typical political and spiritual tensions surrounding Tibet.

The Bhagirathi River already is constrained by the 2.4 GW Tehri Dam and hydroelectric project (pictured below), completed in 2006 downstream from Uttarkashi.

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Electricity was originally generated at remote hydroelectric dams or by burning coal in the city centers, delivering electricity to nearby buildings and recycling the waste heat to make steam to heat the same buildings.

The rest is made up mainly of large hydroelectric dams and a nuclear plant, deemed by most alternative - energy experts as unsustainable and hence not renewable.

In a surprise move, the Brazilian government has announced that the era of building big hydroelectric dams in the Amazon basin, long criticized by environmentalists and indigenous groups, is ending.

In Thomas representatives of the Saik» uz and Stellat» en First Nations brought an action for alleged damages arising out of the construction and operation of a hydroelectric dam, authorized by the Government of British Columbia, by Rio Tinto Alcan and its predecessors on the Nechako River since the early 1950s.

here was a lot of hope an optimism with respect to the initial statements made by the prime minister of Canada, but his actions, in terms of approving the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, the approval of the Site C (hydroelectric) dam, and the (Pacific Northwest) Lelu Island LNG facility (later cancelled) were all a betrayal of the commitments made during the last federal election.»