Sentences with phrase «by hydroelectric plants»

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.

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.

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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.

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!!!

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.

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.

Day Three — Optional Zip Lining over a canyon outside of Santa Teresa, or alternatively a three hour hike to the Hydroelectric plant (usually sunny and dry), followed by an easy three hour hike from the Hydroelectric plant to Aguas Calientes (usually sunny, but can be rainy depending on the time of year).

The underground tunnel system is what actually brings the water into New York City while the electricity is supplied by a distant hydroelectric plant in a Canadian forest.

Finally with Charles Sheeler's work «Water», 1945, the cool depiction of a brand new hydroelectric plant, the painting is both literally and metaphorically «dry», with no water visible and a total absence of any human narrative; this is a picture «built» by the artist in the name of progress, the modern metropolis rendered pristine — and rather frightening — as the viewer questions that total lack of a human presence or narrative — and as we look on, still buoyed by this geometrically clean Modernist dream, all the while the machines — the new modern soul — conspire to take over the world.

Also, if the big solar power plants out west and some of the geothermal, hydroelectric, biofuel, and wind plants all connect to the same HVDC lines, the ratio of average to peak power transmission can be reduced along those lines by having geothermal, biofuel, and hydroelectric plants respond to variations in wind and solar.

In fact, the drought in the U.S. southeast this past year threatened to close nuclear plants in North Carolina and literally cut Georgia's hydroelectric power generation by half.

While in 1962 the larger public might be characterized as indifferent or mildly impressed with the engineering feat of a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant, by the late 1960s, the tide of opinion had begun to turn and a new conventional wisdom began to emerge.

As we ascended the 1,300 - foot - high windswept knob, I was reminded continually of a remarkable gathering last December of environmentalists, lawyers and scholars who played critical roles in defeating a plan proposed by Consolidated Edison in 1962 to embed a pumped - storage hydroelectric plant in the mountain.

Overall in 2030, J&D envision 50 % of global power demand will be met by wind, 20 % by concentrated solar thermal power, 14 % by solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants, 6 % by solar PV on rooftops, 4 % each by geothermal and hydroelectric, and 1 % each from waves and tides.

Water resources, already over-tapped in many areas, will become even scarcer as a result of increased evaporation and snowmelt caused by higher temperatures, affecting agriculture, hydroelectric power plants, and water availability in growing cities such as Phoenix and Las Vegas.

The park's protection also ensures surrounding communities» access to water and food, as well as important economic opportunities for the 3,500 people employed by the park, ecotourism operators, and a small hydroelectric plant.

Boosted by the growing share of solar and wind, 2016 serves as the second year where non-hydro renewable sources generated more electricity than hydroelectric plants.

By Guilhem By Harvey 12 Pros and Cons... Although hydroelectric power plants don't cause pollution, they use up a lot space and destroy a lot of wildlife due to flooding which also causes /

Prior to Turkey's recent economic difficulties, projections by Turkey's Electricity Generating and Transmission Corporation (TEAS), a public company which owns and operates 15 thermal and 30 hydroelectric plants generating 91 % of Turkey's electricity, had indicated that rapid growth in electricity consumption would continue over the next 15 years.

A number of ammonia plants using hydroelectric electrolysis operated in the last half century, but most have closed, being supplanted by cheaper methane reformation.

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.

Pumped - storage hydroelectric plant: A plant that usually generates electric energy during peak load periods by using water previously pumped into an elevated storage reservoir during off - peak periods when excess generating capacity is available to do so.

However only around 10 % (or a tad higher by some estimates) of the total US electricity supply comes from hydroelectric plants.

The most water - efficient energy sources are natural gas (though we may be just about out of it) and synthetic fuels produced by coal gasification; the least efficient are ethanol and biodiesel — the biofuels just can't catch a break these days, can they?Water use winners and losers The research pair analyzed 11 types of energy sources, including coal, fuel ethanol, natural gas, and oil; and five power generating methods, including hydroelectric, fossil fuel thermoelectric, and nuclear methods; in terms of power generation, Younos and Hill have found that geothermal and hydroelectric energy types use the least amount of water, while nuclear plants use the most.

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.