The European Union's use of renewable energy—such as hydropower, wind and solar—reached 17.5 percent in 2017, keeping it on track for a target of 20 percent by 2020.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 31, 2019
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Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and UC Riverside found that inland river dams can have highly destructive effects on the stability and productivity of coastline and estuarine habitats. The ...
Environment
Mar 13, 2019
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Tajikistan on Friday inaugurates a $3.9 billion hydro-electric power plant, a mega project that will enable the impoverished country to eliminate domestic energy shortages and export electricity to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 16, 2018
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German and EU cash will be used to finance the first solar power station in Ivory Coast, Germany's embassy in Abidjan said Wednesday, as the West African country attempts to boost its use of renewable energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2018
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There are few dams in the world that capture the imagination as much as Belo Monte, built on the "Big Bend" of the Xingu river in the Brazilian Amazon. Its construction has involved an army of 25,000 workers working round ...
Environment
Aug 09, 2018
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As the poster child for the growing ranks of computer-generated currencies, bitcoin's recent stratospheric price rises have propelled it from the chat forum-hosted depths of nerddom into the global consciousness.
Internet
Dec 24, 2017
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Bosnia's fisheries watchdog gazes over an expanse of sand and mud, a space once occupied by a large thriving lake but recently emptied in the race for electricity production.
Environment
Feb 12, 2017
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TU Delft researchers have completed a detailed account of the global potential of hydropower. The results of their research were published in the scientific journal PLOS One on Wednesday, 8 February 2017.
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 10, 2017
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Climate change could upset the complex interplay of rain, snow and temperature in the West, hurting food production, the environment and electrical generation at dams, the federal government warned Tuesday.
Environment
Mar 22, 2016
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Building a $400-million hydroelectric power plant in the world's most arid desert may seem like an engineering debacle, but Chile sees it as a revolutionary way to generate green energy.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 10, 2015
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