Sentences with phrase «existing dams»
"Existing dams" refers to dams that are already built and in place. These are not new or future dams, but ones that are currently present and serving a specific purpose such as water storage, flood control, or power generation. Full definition
Much of what one often hears about greenhouse gas emissions from dams being minimal is based on the world's existing dams with measurements of emissions.
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To understand Site C's true impact on First Nations, you first had to look at the distressing impacts of the two existing dams on...
One approach is to create campaigns against new dams to save fish, or to create campaigns to have existing dams removed (as in the Snake River dams in the USA).
Considering the impact of climate change on watersheds when planning new dams or revise existing dams is most important for human safety and economic reasons.
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.
A high percentage of existing dams merely hold back water and could be retrofitted to generate electricity, which should be considered instead of more wind projects.
The plan calls for virtually no new hydroelectric dams, but does account for energy gains from improving the efficiency of existing dams.
The problem is that Jacobson's plan assumed nearly ten fold increase in hydro power, much of it by adding more generators to existing dams.
Over a dozen World Heritage Sites threatened by planned or existing dams were reviewed at this year's World Heritage Committee meeting, held in St. Petersburg, Russia.
The existing dams are preponderantly outside of the humid tropics, and among existing dams most data are from those in non-tropical regions.
I seriously doubt we'll ever dam another river in the Northwest and gradually the existing dams are coming down.
Along with speeding up permits on public lands, the administration also wants to expedite permitting for incremental hydro projects on existing dams.
We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of acres of presently settled land.»