Sentences with phrase «flow over the dam»

Once you use up the glycogen in your liver, your body turns to the fat stores and lowers insulin levels to allow more stored body fat to flow over the dam into the system.

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On the other hand, dam decommissioning converts reservoirs back to fast - flowing rivers, restoring river species to their natural habitats over the long run.

The large reservoir behind the dam is to be filled over a three - to five - year or longer period, during which it is expected that the amount of Nile flow to the Sudan and Egypt and its delta will be substantially reduced.

The team found a drastic reshuffling of scarcity hotspots over time, with mostly people upstream benefiting from the damming of river flows, but those downstream left high and dry (Nature Communications, doi.org/b8rs).

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Since turbines are the most expensive part of a hydroelectric dam, placing over 11,000 MW of capacity in a run - of - river dam without sufficient river flow to use most of the turbines for much of the year makes the dam economically unviable.