Sentences with phrase «for hydro power»

We could not build the dams and water powered generators for hydro power if we did not have the Carbon Fuels to provide heat to manufacture the parts for everything required to accomplish the task.

The potential for hydro power in Australia is quite small, and if we dam rivers to get more hydro that will be much more damaging to the environment than will wind power developments.

For hydro power station factors like rainfall, steam flow available head and storage facilities are studied.

Though potential for hydro power is huge, it will contribute only about 7 % of India's galloping energy needs.

The same as water is taxed for hydro power.

Not exact matches

As I wrote for NOVA Next, Germany stabilized its grid and electricity supply by dialing up its fossil fuel, nuclear, and hydro power, while also asking four energy - hogging aluminum smelters to dial down their power use temporarily.

We need companies to invest and people to look at small grid power systems, combinations of wind and diesel, thermal energy, hydro electric energy things that can be tailored for these individual villages depending on their location.

(Durfy stepped down for personal reasons in 2010 and now serves as president of Northland Power, a developer of natural gas, wind and hydro projects.)

Cheap natural gas has been an important source of fuel for the oilsands, but most of Canada already had abundant hydro - electrical endowments to power homes and businesses at relatively low cost, so shale hasn't been much of a revolution over here (pdf).

The Clark government has also proposed that taxpayers fund hydro dam construction to subsidize power for the energy - hungry liquified natural gas plants largely owned by foreign companies.

But once the final wind, hydro and biomass projects from the 2008 Clean Power Call are completed, there will be few new prospects for clean power developers, or the accompanying construction Power Call are completed, there will be few new prospects for clean power developers, or the accompanying construction power developers, or the accompanying construction jobs.

The province can drastically reduce its reliance on fossil fuels for power generation and replace it with renewable energy sources such as wind, sun, biomass, hydro and geothermal energy.

Here at home, our water is vital to the provincial economy too, with hydro being our main source for creating the electricity that lights our homes and cities and powers our businesses.

Speaking on the Citi Breakfast Show, the Deputy Minister for Power, John Jinapor, said his Ministry had not been shedding power for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plPower, John Jinapor, said his Ministry had not been shedding power for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plpower for the past three weeks as some sections of the public have alleged, but he revealed they now intend to rest some of the hydro plants.

However, as these rivers originate in India, India can use them for irrigation, transport and hydro - power generation.

On if the improvement of power supply in the country is as a result of raining season or improvement on the part of Discos, Fashola said, «what is interesting is that for the first time in a long time, our gas fired plants and our hydro power plants driven by water have converged together, and when you factor that to the improvement that the Gencos investors have made into their plants and are still making, it explains the improved power supply that you have.»

According to him, it is a challenging period for power sector but it will get better once the hydro swing into high water level and gas becomes available.

She was part of the campaign to end fracking in New York State and has advocated for an end to reliance on fossil fuel and replacing it with sustainable power sources like solar, wind and hydro electric power.

Also, the length of the monsoon is relevant for planning hydro power generation since the rains are necessary to fill the dams and reservoirs.

The islands are ripe with fuel for wind, hydro and tidal power.

Wheeler examined International Energy Agency data for 174 countries on investments in six low - carbon power sources (hydro, geothermal, nuclear, biomass, wind and solar) to find the incremental costs of clean power compared to a cheaper, carbon - intensive option like a conventional coal - fired power plant.

To my mind, the main point of the new paper by Caldeira and team is: we can get 80 % of our electric needs from solar, hydro, and wind power (if a low - loss national grid is built for America).

In Sweden, wind, hydro, and solar power account for 52 percent of the electricity used, which places it at No. 1 in the world for sustainable energy use and puts it firmly on the path to becoming the first fossil - fuel - free nation.

It's been a few years since the last sighting of any humans when, one day, a small search party of men — and one woman (Keri Russell, fine but under - written)-- led by Malcolm (Jason Clarke, very good), wanders into the woods, looking for a hydro - electric dam to restore power to the nearby city.

While this trio is scouting out an old hydro plant in hopes of finding a power source for the city, they come face to face with the angry apes.

, that is utter nonsense and as wind and solar increase they will displace water and create power from hydro dams and sea wind farms into a totally clean electric infrastructure running clean electric steel forging, electric welding and electric aluminium smelting that will create these simple powerful cars for a much brighter future.

Coal generated 33 % of Southern's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

By power source, coal generated 33 % of Southern Company's total megawatt hours in 2015, gas accounted for 47 %, nuclear was 16 %, and hydro power was 3 %.

Still not knowing what is awaiting us, we bicycle through another beautiful canyon to the hydro - electric power station and from there we'll take old rail tracks for the last few kilometers.

The hotels uses hydro electricity for power.

The story of the watershed is a complicated one; people living and working in this area have tried to balance the needs of industry and resource gathering with the needs of environmental longevity and protection, especially since the time when the potential for hydro electric power was observed.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

Beautiful in their own right, these Falls are compelling for the Spanish love story behind the man - made triumph which also Jose Paronella build Australia's first hydro - electric power source.

Accessible only by boat, Playa Cativo is a true escape from the rest of the world, and a model of sustainability, producing hydro - powered electricity and growing food for its El Gavilán Restaurant in its own organic garden.

The player starts out riding the Switchblade which is provided by a friend to enable your character to start racing again before powering to the podium and victories to earn enough cash to upgrade each of the four attributes for a higher level performance for your hydro jets, while the further 8 hydro jets are unlocked by beating bosses at the end of each series within the career mode.

In addition to the charges for maintaining transmission & distribution infrastructure that Steve P. mentioned, and taxes & c, you need to multiply your figure by about 0.7, to account for the approximately 30 % of US power that comes from nuclear, hydro, geothermal, wind & c.

Many big cities and towns owe their existence to rivers, either because some waterway provided a transit route, water source, or hydro power for mills in the early days of industrialization.

I've told people that Green Mountain Energy provides wind power here for about 1 cent more per KWH & wind / hydro for the same price as fossil fuel electricity, but no one cares to switch.

Wind, solar, hydro, and geothermal make me feel warm and fuzzy and want to sign Kumbaya but they are not reliable enough, nor in sufficient quantities to eliminate the need for coal / oil / gas fired power plants.

The four scientists call for an increase in ambition in the deployment of improved light - water reactors, with the accelerated development of advanced fission technologies to accompany planned increases in solar, wind and hydro power generation.

There is little potential for more hydro power development in Australia; the country is predominantly low - lying and dry.

If the capacity of the links was greatly increased mainland Australia could feed large amounts of solar power into the Tasmania when it was plentiful, and Tasmania's hydro power could be conserved for the times when wind and solar were less plentiful on the mainland.

Philip the troll, sorry for your loss, but why do you want to replace hydro power with wynd turbines?

We've reported on the fine efforts of Paul Miskelly to tip a bucket on the well - worn MYTH that — with fans spread far and wide across 4 Australian States (NSW, Victoria, Tasmania and SA)-- the wind will always be blowing somewhere, such that wind power can be considered a substitute for on - demand power sources, like hydro.

Power generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South AustrPower generation using biofuels can be competitive, but the amount of available fuel is very limited; wave and tidal power are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower are much more expensive; hot rock geothermal power has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower has been tried for years, but has not been shown to be a practicality; hydro - power is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Austrpower is not an option in dry and relatively flat South Australia.

Weißbach et al. have analysed the EROI for a number of forms of energy production and their principal conclusion is that nuclear, hydro -, and gas and coal - fired power stations have an EROI that is much greater than wind, solar photovoltaic (PV), concentrated solar power in a desert or cultivated biomass: see Fig. 2.

Time will tell, but for Germany it appears that a lack of low cost storage would necessitate a vast oversupply of Solar and Wind power in order to supply the grid without backup from fossil fuel, hydro, and / or nuclear.

For comparison, Russia generated 170TWh from hydro power in 2015, out of a total demand of 1,063 TWh.

Today, geothermal, hydro - and nuclear power, together with the historic biofuels of wood and straw, account for about 15 % of our energy use.

«There are other feasible methods for generating reliable economic non-carbon electricity — nuclear power as in France, geo - thermal as in Iceland, and hydro as in Scandinavia.