Sentences with phrase «voltage power lines»

There, Australian gas could be fed into an open - access, common carrier gas export pipeline network bundled with high - capacity high voltage power lines and fiber optics.

I recall we talked about oat bran, and the safety (or not) of living near a high voltage power line.

The same view, but from a better angle (without high voltage power lines in sight) is a short walk away from there, at the Panjoo Lookout.

The Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition has been given the opportunity argue their case that proposed high voltage power line expansion in the region is unnecessary, Among their concerns: the view.

However, the German Solar Industry Federation rejects DENA's concerns, claiming that extra solar energy takes the pressure off high - voltage power lines because it tends to be generated close to where it is used.

On 2013/10/25 Grenatec reported that China has plans to built up to 20 high - capacity, high - voltage power lines across its territory in order to connect its western sun, wind and hydro energy sources with its eastern and southern energy - hungry coastal cities.

The power grids in the U.S. — there are actually three of them — are enormously complex, but they're traditionally based on a simple idea: Electricity moves in one direction, from a power plant to homes along high voltage transmission lines and lower voltage power lines that distribute electricity to individual homes and neighborhoods.

Hazardous occupations could be observed as farmers & ranchers, high voltage power line repairmen, loggers and lumberjacks, commercial divers, iron workers, waste disposal workers, truck drivers and a number of others.

It would be based upon a global network of Ultra High Voltage power lines connecting global power generation including massive wind farm at the North Pole and solar power from equatorial areas to energy users around the world.

Choppin, Delon and Menard's design uses existing infrastructure - the towers and pylons that dot the more than 157,000 miles of high voltage power lines in the U.S. - to locate their turbines, which can be stacked within already sited structures.

It seems that it is bisected by not only one (as Reardon stated) but two high voltage power lines; not only is the highway passing through, but there are also two truck parking bays (so there would be trucks starting and stopping, with all the noise associated, at any time of the day and night) and 30 % of the block has water - logging and drainage problems.

PSEG Long Island has filed a state application for work on a new high - voltage power line to run 7.3 miles underground between Uniondale and Lynbrook to reduce outages in a region fed by two antiquated cables.

The Hudson Valley Smart Energy Coalition claims proposed high - voltage power lines would impart major environmental and visual impacts on many natural and some historic sites.

Plenty of power, not enough lines To make this happen, Germany needs nearly 1,000 miles of new high - voltage power lines in the coming years, according to plans approved by the federal government.

Luring customers with a smarter grid What it did have, Willson noted, were high - voltage power lines connecting it to the local utility.

But a study out today suggests that the United States could, at least in theory, use new high - voltage power lines to move renewable power across the nation, and essentially eliminate the need to add new storage capacity.

Bottle caps, DDT, high - voltage power lines and the occasional shooting also contribute, which means the environment still presents «all the mortality factors that nearly caused their extinction,» Grantham says.

Accurately measuring electric fields is important in a variety of applications, such as weather forecasting, process control on industrial machinery, or ensuring the safety of people working on high - voltage power lines.

Ever since humans started building tall things, birds have been pooping on them, including high - voltage power lines.

Sitting about two miles from the base of the dammed 323,000 - acre Castaic Lake, the school's campus is also threaded by high - voltage power lines and underground crude - oil pipelines.

The dashboard is not a pretty leather - trimmed fascia but a minimalist lightweight aluminum cross member structured like the tower of 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.

(This is part of a class of issues surrounding the health risks of various electronic technologies — electromagnetic fields, «dirty» electricity, high - voltage power lines, etc.) It's possible to work up irrational fear over just about anything.

The workplaces are inherently dangerous, involving such hazards as working with or around heavy equipment, including heavy haul trucks, cable and hydraulic shovels, high voltage power lines, radiation, chemicals, explosives, high temperature steam, high pressure piping, high pressure, flammable liquids and gases, and in blast zones.

Decorations that accidentally come into contact with a high - voltage power line can easily start a fire and cause electrocution as well.

In addition to safety issues and structural concerns, the property could be rejected if it's too close to an airport, has gas or oil wells onsite, has heavy traffic noise, or is near high - voltage power lines or a radio / TV transmission tower.