Sentences with phrase «near power lines»

Solutions: Home owners should have branches trimmed near power lines before winter begins.
A tree - trimmer in Pennsylvania was killed in a workplace accident that highlights the dangers of working near power lines.
We searched for trees that grew near power lines to see what the effect of the EMF was on the form of the tree.
He concluded that children who lived near power lines were twice as likely to develop cancer as those who did not, because of the electromagnetic fields the lines created.
The piece examines a burst of media coverage and public panic after some studies hinted at raised childhood leukemia risk near power lines nearly a quarter century ago.
These effects will simply reflect laboratory contamination, and have nothing to do with the processes going on inside the bodies of children living near power lines.
A MAJOR flaw may have wrecked years of experiments designed to find a biological mechanism to explain the claim that children living near power lines are more likely to develop leukaemia.

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Justo Gonzalez, the power company's executive sub-director, told reporters that workers were removing a collapsed tower Wednesday during unrelated power restoration efforts near the south coast and an excavator hit the transmission line.
Speaking in abstract terms about blank, amorphous «innocent lives» keeps us from confronting the reality that if most of these children are born at or near the poverty line, then the lives we are saving are more likely to be troubled ones, and if nothing changes, those lives will get caught in vicious cycles powered by poverty and systemic racism.
Captain Kate Newcomb, of the Broome County Sheriff's Office, offered these tips when near a downed power line or cable:
At the Ginna nuclear plant near Rochester, for example, the PSC ordered subsidy payments to keep Ginna running - but only for 18 months while the local utility finishes building a transmission line to bring in power from elsewhere.
The five wind turbines were erected to power toll plazas and other Thruway facilities near exits between Eden - Angola and the Pennsylvania state line.
Captain Kate Newcomb, of the Broome County Sheriff's Office, offered tips when near a downed power line or cable:
A third, which would expand a line that is near the Indian Point Nuclear Power plant, is still scheduled, but opponents are putting pressure on Gov. Andrew Cuomo to use his persuasive powers with the federal government to stop the expansion.
Some analysts expect that existing grid capacity may be enough to power U.S. electric cars in the near future, yet they do not rule out the possibility of new coal or nuclear plants coming on line if renewable energy sources are not developed
On Sept. 9, 2011, high temperatures tripped a transmission line near Yuma, Ariz., sparking a chain of events that shut down the San Onofre nuclear power plant, caused the release of untreated sewage and required San Diego residents to boil their drinking water.
It employs reclaimed water for its cooling and was built near existing transmission lines on what used to be farmland rather than the pristine desert areas nearby that have provoked opposition to some other planned solar power plants.
The U.S. has endured a slew of «near misses» in recent years: a 0.48 - centimeter thick stainless steel lining is all that stood between Davis — Besse nuclear power plant in Ohio and a meltdown in 2002.
The largest of these eruptions cause what is known as space weather — the radiation, energetic particles and magnetic field releases from the Sun powerful enough to cause severe effects in Earth's near environment, such as the disruption of communications, power lines and navigations systems.
In a storied pre-dawn episode one day in 1976, a Texas power company secretly rewired its lines near Wichita Falls, Texas, to a sister plant in Oklahoma in order to protect its status as an interstate holding company.
Near Big Sur, Calif., GPS tracking documented a condor corridor from Anderson Peak to the Pacific Ocean in a canyon where Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) maintains a three - mile power line.
Today many independent producers sell power near and far over transmission lines they do not own.
A subsequent review of the entire power plant by the NRC in the wake of the near - miss revealed that its emergency cooling system — a critical line of defense in the event of a meltdown — might have failed due to clogging resulting from «generic» flaws built into the plant prior to 1977.
Risks posed by living near overhead power lines or petrol stops, or using cellphones, are less clear.
April 18, 2018 - Justo Gonzalez, the power company's executive sub-director, told reporters that a private contractor removing a collapsed tower during unrelated power restoration efforts near the south coast hit the transmission line on Wednesday with an excavator...
Women resident near high power lines showed reduced melatonin production as in workers performing stressful night shifts.
Sounds to me like the line from the oil separator to the dipstick got damaged, it passes near the rack and pinion and can be seen by looking down into the motor from the driver's side, between the motor and power brake booster unit.
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The V8 - powered S and 4S are about $ 90,000 and $ 96,000, respectively, the Turbo model starts around $ 138,000, and the top - of - the - line Turbo S has a starting price very near $ 175,000 — adding Porsche options can increase that dramatically.
Peak torque is available from just 1,500 rpm to give it good spring off the line and power remains strong through the middle of the rev range to taper off slightly near redline.
The bottom line, when the 2015 Mercedes - Benz C - Class near Chicago, IL arrives we can expect more power, space, and style, which all equals more Mercedes - Benz fun!
Rounding out the noteworthy driver aid tech is the optional lane departure warning and prevention system, which will vibrate the steering wheel when the vehicle drifts near the lane markers and will attempt to pull the car back in line with the electronic power steering if a line is crossed without signalling.
0.1.3 parallel evolution routine affecting the random numbers generation stream contour line = locate the streamline of local maximums inside the scanned hardware current flow points to matrix, automatic routine virtual frequency parameter inline with triple of the interruption frequency for random number request, on idle sustaining the previous frequency divided by the power of lowest amplitude (that of the tangent point (touching point of the actual scan) of the streamline nearest to the component location inside the matrix)
0.1.2 parallel evolution routine affecting the random numbers generation upon adjusting the cooling power along the stream contour line by one unit toward the power maximums of 999 units — if touched then set the power at the middle of the coverage band and rescale units by transposition of the position inside the coverage band, automatic routine virtual frequency parameter inline with twice of the interruption frequency for random number request, on idle sustaining the previous frequency divided by the power of lowest amplitude (that of the tangent point (touching point of the actual scan) of the streamline nearest to the component location inside the matrix)
0.1.4 parallel evolution routine affecting the random numbers generation upon adjusting the current - balance protection along the stream contour line by one unit toward the power minimums of 666 units — if touched then set the power at the middle of the coverage band and rescale units by transposition of the position inside the coverage band, automatic routine virtual frequency parameter inline with four times of the interruption frequency for random number request, on idle sustaining the previous frequency divided by the power of lowest amplitude (that of the tangent point (touching point of the actual scan) of the streamline nearest to the component location inside the matrix)
Microsoft's Surface tablet line may be set for a refresh in the near future, with rumors suggesting that the 10 - inch tablet range would be powered by Intel hardware — and could cost just $ 400.
In the alternate time - line (post Crono interference), it was transformed into a flying arcology, a temple infused with the near - infinite power of Lavos by using the Mammon Machine.
High Line to Keep Park Free — Though the powers that be had originally decided to charge each visitor $ 6 a piece to make reservations to tour the final, undeveloped section of the immensely popular High Line park, where seven near - hidden sculptures by Carol Bove will be on view for the next year, they have since decided to drop the fee, allowing nature - enthusiasts to walk through the elevated park's overgrown and unmanicured section unsolicited.
I recall we talked about oat bran, and the safety (or not) of living near a high voltage power line.
In the late 1980s, palpable dread gripped parts of the country after reports that clusters of cancer had developed among children whose families lived near high - voltage power lines.
It is true that the Google - and NRG - backed three - tower, 370 - megawatt solar power plant under construction in Ivanpah, CA, near Las Vegas, will be the biggest such project in the world when it goes on - line in 2013.
For example, the Crescent Dunes solar thermal power tower plant near Tonopah, Nevada that is expected to come on line by the end of 2013 will include 10 hours of thermal energy storage.
Oh, and while conventional power stations can be built right where the power is needed (in or near major cities), solar and wind farms have to be sited where demand is low or nonexistent, necessitating hundreds of billions of dollars in new transmission lines, transformers and other infrastructure, and the personnel to maintain them..
Because there is little wind power near large population centers, tens of thousands of miles of new transmission lines would have to be built within the next few years.
While many living near the potential route of American Transmission Company's 345 - kilovolt line remain steadfast against it, the project is drawing support from groups like Renew Wisconsin, which say the line will ease the delivery of wind power from Iowa and Minnesota into major population centers to the East.
«Drilling near breeding areas would be prohibited during mating season, and power lines would be moved away from prime habitat to avoid serving as perches for raptors who prey on sage grouse,» notes Bette Grande, a research fellow at the Heartland Institute and a former North Dakota state legislator.
In the near future, as older power stations are taken off - line, nuclear's share of global electricity production will fall precipitously unless new plants are built.
Wouldn't relatively - small, easily - refueled, modular nuclear generators, sited below ground near point of use and augmented with rooftop solar in warm climes, enable «mini-grids» to power sub-communities and small towns without extensive transmission lines?
We declined once again, therefore the proposed new above ground power line has to follow the roads near our farm as we didn't want it through our farm.
Rocky Mountain Power and Idaho Power first proposed the 500 - kilovolt, 10 - segment Project in 2007 as a 10 - segment, 500 - kilovolt transmission line originating near Glenrock, Wyoming, and terminating at the Hemingway substation, 20 miles southwest of Boise, Idaho.
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