Sentences with phrase «with hydroelectricity»

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Canada, equipped with abundant hydroelectricity and more cold air than anyone could want, should be an easy sell.

Peter Anthony Prince was a lumber and hydroelectricity magnate who, as the story goes, obtained an exclusive contract to provide Calgary with electricity after taking a fall on an unlit sidewalk...

Other targets announced by Rousseff include 12 million hectares of reforestation, 5 million hectares of crops - livestock - forestry integration, the end of illegal deforestation, and meeting 45 % of the country's energy needs with renewables — up from a 40 % share today — largely thanks to hydroelectricity and sugarcane ethanol.

Mark Jacobson claims that a world with only wind, solar and hydroelectricity would be his dream (9 September, p 26).

A man argues with a woman, insisting that they must tear down her family's chapel for boards to construct a water wheel for hydroelectricity production.

Brock's Monument penetrating the sky across the river in Canada (commemorating a British - American battle during the War of 1812) and the arc of the Lewiston - Queenston Bridge — with the Sir Adam Beck Power Plant just beyond — provided dramatic markers of Artpark's place in an area characterized by transnationalism and an anomalous mix of tourism with the plumes of industry powered by hydroelectricity.

When San Onofre closed its last reactor in 2012, with no formal replacement plan in place, there was a short - term spike in natural gas consumption (worsened by the simultaneous arrival of a multi-year drought, which cut hydroelectricity generation) and an increase in California's greenhouse gas emissions.

The City of Eugene has developed and is implementing strategies include increasing water conservation; increasing investment in the urban forest; removing essential services from the 100 - year flood zone; and increasing energy efficiency to reduce demand for hydroelectricity, a resource that is expected to decline with climate change; conducting a food security assessment

Although hydroelectric dams are estimated to constitute 30 % — 62 % of global impoundments (Lehner et al. 2011, Varis et al. 2012), 82 % of reservoirs with known uses in our GHG database had the capacity to generate hydroelectricity (supplemental figure S7).

After being heavily lobbied, however, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recognized imported power, including hydroelectricity, as an important way for states to comply with the new federal emission rules.

There's five times as much hydroelectricity available as is being tapped, and tapping hydroelectricity in pumpable reservoirs is, as Chief Hydrologist points out, the best flood control measure one could implement in a world with way too many floods..

But if hydroelectricity is an option, then the entry point may be mitigation, and both adaptation and mitigation might be evaluated at the same time or even with explicit trade - offs.

And I will mention that India has a large hydroelectric sector and hydroelectricity works very well in conjunction with wind and solar.

With the proposed IPCC guidelines, tropical countries that rely heavily on hydroelectricity, such as Brazil, could see their national greenhouse emissions inventories increased by as much as 7 % (see map).

Powerex is the marketing and trading company arm of BC Hydro, and has significant access to hydroelectricity and transmission capacity, along with licenses and permits from Canadian and U.S. regulators to serve customers such as utilities and independent power producers.

The generation of hydroelectricity at California dams will drop dramatically from average levels because it varies directly with streamflow.

China is home to nearly two - thirds of the bitcoin hashrate with mining operations rampant in the Sichuan province and the autonomous regions of Inner Mongolia and Tibet that provide cheap hydroelectricity and cooler temperatures for the energy - intensive process of mining cryptocurrency.

Aside from offering cheap commercial hydroelectricity, Manitoba experiences among the lowest temperatures of major cities in North America — which has recently garnered the attention of major cryptocurrency mining companies seeking to flee the regulatory uncertainty presently associated with China.