Sentences with phrase «hydro electric plant»

For sure locally, Hank, just as thermal power plants (and even hydro electric plant impoundments, for that matter) and built - up urban areas also have a significant climate effect on a local scale, but I took David's question to refer to the climate system as a whole.

Not exact matches

Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing the massive Lower Churchill hydropower facility, and Manitoba is expected to begin building the Conawapa Generating Station, which would be the largest hydro - electric plant in the province's north.

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.

First up are the four multiplayer maps: Hydro: Located in Pakistan, this hydro - electric plant comes complete with a lethal spillway that floods with very little

: Located in Pakistan, this hydro - electric plant comes complete with a lethal spillway that floods with very little warning.

When finally completed, it will stand as the world's largest generator of hydro - electric power, with a yearly output equal to that of fifty million tons of coal or fifteen nuclear power plants.

With the fish transportation conduit, fish populations might be able to get around hydro - electric plants without being killed by the turbine blades.

E. g. if the sunlight is collected in outer space by large but practical thin plastic mirrors, it can be directed to any place on earth, preferably near existing hydro - electric plants, so that it would not be necessary to greatly increase the existing electric grid, all without any really new technology.

We don't have the electric capacity in nuclear, solar, hydro, combined cycle, etc to replace the missing coal fired plants.

Its clean energy portfolio, which accounts for over 18 % of the total equity capacity at end - 2011, includes hydro - electric, solar, wind and biomass plants.

Today, there are 11 independent public electricity generating plants, including the two hydro - electric generators Hernádvíz Hydro Power Ltd. (one plant) and Tiszavíz Hydro Power Ltd. (two plants).

This is a particularly interesting and unusual project because beyond the wind turbines it is to include from 3 to 10MW of solar (photovoltaic) collectors and a closed - loop mini hydro - electric plant.

A veteran of the U.S. Submarine Service (one hitch) and a degreed Electrical Engineer (U.T. Knoxville — 1968 — three peer - reviewed IEEE papers published), I spent most of my career designing, building and commissioning electric power generating plants including hydro, pumped storage, coal fired, natural gas, nuclear (both PWR and BWR), geothermal, wood - waste, and landfill gas.

Only three sources are currently capable of providing that: fossil fuels, nuclear plants, and hydro - electric facilities.

Methane is produced by the trees and plants which have been submerged by the dam waters and is released when the water passes through the turbines of hydro - electric power stations.

NOW the very people who opposed the building of a hydro - electric facility are demanding that we should build such facilities and shut down the power plants that they previously said were better and cheaper.

Switzerland's hydro plants provide 55 % of its electric power and nuclear plants provide most (45 %) of the remainder, which probably means little CO2 and other pollutants are produced.

Solar and wind thus require that natural gas plants, hydro - electric dams, batteries or some other form of reliable power be ready at a moment's notice to start churning out electricity when the wind stops blowing and the sun stops shining.

Nuclear power plants require enormous amounts of fresh water to operate — they are on rank 3 on the largest water footprint of energy sources after hydro - electric power (obviously) and shortly behind coal — leaving all other energy sources way behind, including gas, wind, solar, etc..

And my real point in # 116 is how CAFE relates to carbon trading and why American taxpayers (or European or Australian taxpayers for that matter) should accept a system of cap and trade that provides subsidies for untold thousands of dubious projects such as building developing world hydro - electric plants that would have been built anyways, or that enriches untold thousands of individuals in cap and trade firms when a simple direct tax would accomplish the same goal more efficiently.

«We announce to the public that as the Green Party we take up the legal struggle for the Black Sea against planned hydro - electric power plants, unauthorized roads, dams, gold mines and stone quarries.»

She has installed a small hydro - electric plant developed on a rushing stream in the estate forest.

I have always complained about how narrow the sidewalk is because of hydro (electric utility) and telephone poles that are planted right in the sidewalk; two people can't walk side by side past them.

She has a small hydro - electric plant developed on a stream in the estate forest that generates enough to supply electricity to the 1,000 residents in the area with the excess sold to the national grid.

Solar and wind thus require that natural gas plants, hydro - electric dams, batteries or some other form of reliable power be ready at a moment's notice...

Lead counsel in an ICC arbitration in Paris, conducted in French, governed by the African State's law relating to the construction of a major dam and hydro - electric plant in Africa.

The natural cooling / heating system, along with the power from a dozen nearby hydro - electric plants, mean the facility is 10 percent more efficient than traditional data centers and consumes 40 percent less power.

You and your partner are bound to find plenty to do... and talk about while visiting Belle Isle, such as: people - watching, while sitting on one of the isle's many benches, getting your heart racing on one of the many hiking trails, taking time out to appreciate the overabundance of sweet - smelling honeysuckles, and / or exploring the historic mills, mines, and the massive hydro - electric plant.