Sentences with phrase «from population centers»

For whatever reasons, it was determined about 100 years ago to organize our electric system around central power plants, located far from population centers.

It is even not shameful that we tried originally to put the power plants that use this fuel away from population centers so as to minimize damage from the truly dirty emissions.

Many of our fruits & vegetables are grown thousands of miles from population centers.

The comptroller's report says the three regions that will get casinos may have difficulty attracting large numbers of customers because of their distance from population centers.

Most sites of large scale renewable energy are located far from population centers, but current transmission line technology is capable of economically delivering electricity as far as 4000 miles from the source.

«We find that fires that are upwind from population centers increase pollution levels in those areas and other fires don't increase pollution nearly as much,» Vogl said.

Causey said the group will be on the lookout for tornadoes that hit open fields and are far away from population centers because they suck up less debris that could bang up the equipment.

The materials used were often the materials of the Earth including for instance the soil and rocks and vegetation and water found on - site, and the siting of the works were often distant from population centers.

Revkin is right to highlight the destructive power of even fairly small objects exploding in the atmosphere, but he is wrong to think that the likelihood of one blowing up over the ocean [away from population centers] is a good thing.

«isolated from population centers, mostly uninhabited» and supporting «endemic, depleted, migratory, endangered and threatened species of fish, giant clams, crabs, marine mammals, sea turtles, seabirds, migratory shorebirds and corals that are rapidly vanishing elsewhere in the world.»

If it is, the modular production of air capture units would result in economies of scale, and units could be shipped in standard containers anywhere in the world, away from population centers in dry wastelands.

Springfield is just 80 miles from the population center of United States.

The Andromeda Galaxy is easily visible to the naked eye in a moderately dark sky, though such a sky is available only in smaller towns and isolated areas reasonably far from population centers and sources of light pollution.

He realized his expertise in satellite imaging could help find out where landslides had happened, especially in remote mountain villages far from population centers.

The best way to do that was placing monitoring equipment far from population centers, where CO2 streaming from power plants, automobiles and other infrastructure could skew attempts to determine the average global level of CO2.

Generally, however, large solar and wind projects — the kind most likely to be cost - effective — are built in deserts or on remote mountaintops or plains, far from population centers that need the power.

Figure 2 shows that the achievement of rural students on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) gets worse the farther from a population center they live.

It has extensive wind «resources,» in West Texas, far from the population centers.

Friends of Maine's Mountains (FMM) has opposed all of these attempts because power producing companies have an incentive to build generators in remote areas far from population centers, while utilities that are essentially sister companies have an incentive to build transmission lines hundreds of miles long.

More than half of China's new PV in 2013 was installed in the western provinces of Gansu, Xinjiang, and Qinghai, far from population centers.