Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric dams»

From National Geographic: This is much more than an academic exercise in a region that's home to one of the largest networks of hydroelectric dams in the United States, a recent boom in wind installations, and state mandates for renewables on the grid.

Brazil's proposed construction of what would be the third largest hydroelectric dam on the planet has drawn ire from environmental groups the world over.

According to the plan, the Three Gorges project, built along the Yangtse River, would become the largest hydroelectric dam in the world.

With an electricity grid supplied by hydroelectric dams across rivers, from the heat of its numerous volcanoes, and from wind and the sun, the small Central American nation expects 97 percent of its energy generation to come from renewable sources this year.

Almost all the power is produced from hydroelectric dams particularly across the central part of the Province.

Their epic passage has since been obstructed by poachers that have left sturgeon critically endangered in the wild, along with the construction of the pair of hydroelectric dams at the Iron Gates, the scenic 83 - mile long stretch of the Danube separating Serbia on one side with Romania on the opposite bank.

Except for hydroelectric dams which were designed and utilized well be eco-terrorists overran environmental and green discussions.

Brazil and Peru have signed an energy pact whereby Brazil's development bank will finance five new hydroelectric dams in Peru that will send 80 % of their «cheap» energy production to Brazil.

An agreement made in the 1950s guarantees the city a set amount of electricity from a massive hydroelectric dam on the St. Lawrence River.

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

Tens of thousands of smaller hydroelectric dams exist around the world, and all indications suggest that the number could substantially increase in the future.

Everyone in B.C. would agree that The Big News this December was the final approval to keep building the Site C Hydroelectric Dam on the Peace River near Fort St. John.

«Ultimately the things that will generate electricity in the developing world and here will be the same,» Rucker said, highlighting the next generation of nuclear power plants and hydroelectric dams as particularly applicable in parts of Africa.

The company she is battling is one of the world's largest gold mining companies, whereas Cáceres had been fighting one of Latin America's largest hydroelectric dam projects that would destroy the lands of the indigenous Lenca people.

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In 2010, the BC government announced its plan to build a third hydroelectric dam on the Peace River.

The research was conducted in concert with the Boise - based Idaho Power Company, which provides a large percentage of its electrical power through hydroelectric dams.

PNNL began developing the Sensor Fish in the late 1990s to improve fish survival at hydroelectric dams along the Pacific Northwest's Columbia River Basin.

After decades of demonstrations and protests against the building of an enormous hydroelectric dam at Belo Monte in the lush Brazilian rainforest, the government has finally given approval to begin construction.

In the meantime, we will need to build more hydroelectric dams and construct «fossil fuel plants with carbon capture and storage» technology.

The near - death of one of India's most distinguished scientists has halted work on a major hydroelectric dam in the Himalayas.

In response to the ongoing devastation, a new approach to the Moses - Saunders hydroelectric dam operations was formulated.

Methane emissions from big hydroelectric dams in the tropics outweigh the benefits that this form of renewable energy provides, according to new scientific data

Despite decades of legal and political wrangling to halt the building of a massive hydroelectric dam facility at Belo Monte, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, all seemed lost as earth - movers and construction teams began arriving in drove to the site earlier this year.

Large - scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing U.S. fleet in the future.

Not only are they in the wind business, they're vested in a controversial hydroelectric dam in Brazil.

Great Falls is also known as the «Electric City» which is attributed to the five hydroelectric dams located along the Missouri River.

Hydroelectric dams produce significant amounts of carbon dioxide and methane, and in some cases produce more of these greenhouse gases than power plants running on fossil fuels.

From 1951 to 1952, China built the giant hydroelectric dam on the Ruhe River with help from the Soviet Union.

Itaipu Hydroelectric Dam is the largest operational hydroelectric energy producer in the world, with an installed generation capacity of 14GW.

The lunacy in asking how many state of the art hospitals Mother Theresa built is the same lunacy as asking how many hydroelectric dams Dr. David Livingston built.

Flooding is also often a humanitarian disaster when it strikes and can be an aftereffect of big development projects, like hydroelectric dams.

Hundreds of hydroelectric dams planned for rivers across the Balkans would provide green energy — at a big cost

Hydroelectric dams don't make the trip any easier, with their manmade currents sweeping fish past swirling turbines and other obstacles.

The apes live a peaceful existence of cooperation and unity, right up until their path collides with that of human survivors who want to refurbish a nearby hydroelectric dam.

Peru is planning a series of huge hydroelectric dams on the 1,700 - kilometer (1,056 - mile) Marañón River, which begins in the Peruvian Andes and is the main source of the Amazon River.

If diplomats are serious about the Paris accords (an important caveat), then the GWP to be used for methane is 86 (the IPCC's 20 - year value with feedbacks), and the impact of Amazonian hydroelectric dams is triple what is implied by the lower GWP values that many diplomats would like to adopt.

Large - scale hydroelectric dams continue to be built in many parts of the world (including China and Brazil), but it is unlikely that new facilities will be added to the existing US fleet in the future.

Electricity comes from local hydroelectric dams.

Other forms of energy, in turn, received government assistance including hydroelectric dams built during the 1930s with federal financing, tax breaks for coal companies beginning in 1932 and the nuclear industry's federal research monies beginning in the 1950s.

New research finds that the world's hydroelectric dams generate a surprising amount of greenhouse gas emissions

Some of the biggest hydroelectric dams globally that portray engineering marvel have been created along the major rivers such as the Nile and the Zambezi in Africa.

Hydroelectric dams threaten river ecosystems.