Sentences with phrase «hydro dams»

John Newlands, Most people do nt realise just how much energy is stored in existing hydro dams in Australia.

Most of the power to fuel this electrified transportation system of the future is expected to come from large hydro dams, however, where the consumption of land, and the resulting environmental damage, takes an even greater toll.

With indigenous land demarcations frozen across Brazil, illegal mining and hydro dams threaten the Amazon.

And an energy source from the denser water falling is gravity, as is the source of energy from hydro dams is gravity.

Most of our neighbour's electricity is generated by massive hydro dams on the James Bay and St. Lawrence watershed — so, by today's convoluted meaning of the word, it is clean.

In the North Sea, the idea has been that Norway's hydro dams could become the «battery» for Europe.

NRC looks after nucs, and FERC looks after power plants, the grid, hydro dams, and nat gas pipelines.

Abroad, our foundation helped stop uneconomic hydro dams in Haiti and elsewhere that would have flooded farmers off their land.

The only large - scale projects are hydro dams that the World Bank is getting back into.

, 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.

Recognize that the transition to renewable energy does not justify or require a massive increase in mega hydro dams, biofuels and major monoculture biomass plantations that cause displacement, food insecurity, human rights abuses and deforestation;

It is not just poachers that are a problem: bushmeat hunters, logging and mining, invasive weeds, feral animals, hydro dams and power lines are all threats.

Authorities have attributed the situation to the lowering level of water in the various hydro dams and the piecemeal natural gas supply from Nigeria.

Almost every province will need people overseeing big projects — potash and mining in Saskatchewan, petroleum in Alberta and B.C., and hydro dams in Manitoba and Quebec — with job demand for most of these projects peaking around 2015.

So they'll plunk down a data centre next to a hydro dam in the middle of nowhere.»

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.

The exact impact I am unable to tell now until we finish that meeting; but clearly we must protect the integrity of the hydro dam.

On the first of September tensions in Panama heightened when heavy machinery moved very close to the Ngöbe - Bugle Comarca to complete the highly contested Barro Blanco hydro dam, which is registered under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism.

In a move to bring the contentious Barro Blanco hydro dam project towards its completion, the Panamanian authorities have given the green light to begin flooding the reservoir.

Washington DC, Bonn, Kiad, Panama 24 May 2016 — Today the floodgates were opened on the contentious UN backed Barro Blanco hydro dam in Panama, sparking forced removal by authorities of indigenous Ngäbe communities that are living in protest camps near the dam site.

Images: The wind farm: (c) David Clarke The hydro dam: (c) Amit Patel The pylons: (c) Jean Marc The forest: (c) Oliver Quinlan The offshore platform: (c) Maersk Drilling Freezing rain: (c) Danilo Rozman Bioenergy: (c) Metsäteho Oy The windmill: (c) Robert Vautard

In a controversial move, the Board of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved three large hydro dam projects, despite concerns raised by civil society on the extensive adverse social and environmental effects these projects can have.

By far the worst individual accidents, although rare, are hydro dam failures.

In a video released by the foundation, she described how she helped organize indigenous communities in Honduras to resist a hydro dam on the Gualcarque River because it could destroy their water supply.

Not exact matches

With hydro, you can store more water behind a dam, but just a fraction of what the snowpack holds.

Environmentalists have long urged Ontario to import more clean power from Quebec's hydro - electric dams, but officials always said that would require huge and expensive upgrades to the transmission lines linking the two provinces.

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

Dams vary considerably in the challenges they pose to migrating fish, and the challenges are magnified when a fish must pass through more than one dam or hydro structure.

In a statement, Brazil's government said «with the Belo Monte Dam, Brazil takes an important step to maintain its hydro - based electricity mix, one of the most clean and renewable in the world.»

The dam is one of several large hydro projects being built on tributaries of the Amazon River that are expected to damage pristine regions.

Similar conflicts are looming throughout the south and west, where efforts to protect the declining populations of freshwater fish, including salmon, sturgeon and the most recently listed species, the Californian delta smelt, are going to affect irrigation, the dredging of rivers and navigation, and projects to build dams and hydro - electric plants.

Flying under the accounting radar Derek Scissors, a research fellow in the Asian Studies Center at the Heritage Foundation, questioned whether looking at the past decades is a useful comparison, particularly for hydro development, since industrialized countries like the United States built their dams decades ago.

There is an additional looming danger of considerable importance: Ethiopia, itself energy - poor and undergoing drought conditions, is shortly (in 2017) to complete construction of the largest hydro - electric dam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERdam in Africa, its Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERDam (GERD).

Primates have been relatively safe in the Amazon basin, but climate change and the construction of large hydro - electric dams and the rise of enormous soy plantations in the area are taking a toll on primates.

There is strong anthropogenic pressure on the Tapanuli orangutan due to conversion of pristine forest for mining, plans to build a hydro - electric dam, hunting, and general human encroachment.

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.

«And the newly improved Sensor Fish will allow us to more accurately measure the forces that fish feel as they pass by turbines and other structures in both conventional dams and other hydro power facilities.

Now, a synthetic fish is helping existing hydroelectric dams and new, smaller hydro facilities become more fish - friendly.

Today, there is also a growing interest in small hydro facilities such as small dams that generate less than 10 megawatts of power and pumped storage hydroelectric plants.

The latest version — called the second - generation Sensor Fish — can be used in different kinds of hydro facilities, including unconventional, smaller hydropower plants and conventional dams with either Kaplan or Francis dam turbines.

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.

Filled with gorgeous cinematography and moving interviews (hydro industry representatives did not, for the most part, agree to participate), the film persuasively makes the case that the time has come for a serious re-examination of all the dams in the country.

Day 8 Travel to Guatapé and climb the 740 steps up the Peñol Rock and enjoy a cruise on the reservoir created for a hydro - electric dam.

The valley boasts picturesque, man - made lakes that are part of a complex hydro - electric dam system.

As your New Zealand holiday continues, follow the beautiful braided Waitaki River east, passing Benmore and Aviemore Dam and hydro lakes, before reaching the Pacific Ocean at historic Oamaru.

Hydro takes place in a Pakistinian hydro - electric dam with timed releases of water flow.

The post doesn't mention the new road to the Pacific or the ethanol plant and sugarcane plantations; or the planned road from Cruzeiro do Sul, Brazil to Pulcallpa, Peru and the multiple big hydro - energy dam constructions it will support; or the new Peruvian oil leases in indigenous reserves; or the BR$ 35 million worth of oil exploration in the Juruá watershed in Acre; or the Madeira River complex of big hydroelectric projects in Rondonia near Bolivia.

On the topic of hydro, another large project is Guri Dam in Venezuela.

At the time of writing more than 99 % of the world's energy storage was in pumped hydro (not considering water in hydropower dams as energy storage).

• Next, we build out pumped hydro for storage, using available bodies of water for the lower reservoir, and turkey - nest dams on flat, elevated land for the upper.