Word: hydros
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...power-more than is generated on the Niagara River and three times that of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It will flow 700 miles, over the free world's highest voltage (735,000 volts) transmission line, across continental Newfoundland to Quebec's provincially owned utility, Hydro Quebec. Churchill power will not only double the provincial electric output but also perhaps enable the utility company to export a surplus as far south as New York City...
...dream of developing the vast mineral riches of the north is hydroelectric power, and in this, the premier has proved himself a locksmith with few peers. Under the Canada-U.S. Columbia River treaty, Bennett is building three massive storage dams on the Columbia that will hugely increase the hydro power that such U.S. dams as Grand Coulee can generate downstream. Half that extra power will be Bennett's, and he has already sold it to a consortium of U.S. power companies for a sum that more than pays for the dams. When Lyndon Johnson and Lester Pearson...
...Reclamation Bill (HR4671). These dams will flood over half the canyon left unspoiled after the Glen Canyon Dam was built, including the entire Grand Canyon National Monument. Neither dam is designed to trap irrigation water, a job accomplished too effectively by the existing dams upstream. They are proposed for hydro-electric power to pay for the rest of the irrigation project, but their great size would make them more expensive even in the long run than conventional generating plants. In any case, priceless, spectacular canyon scenery and ecology will be forever lost under lake sediment if the dams are built...
...project in Egypt is sponsored by the Ford Foundation as a pilot study to determine the best of the water from the High Aswan Dam and its subsequent effects on Egypt's population crisis. The water could be used as irrigation for expanded agriculture or as hydro-electric power for industrialization. If it were used to industrialize--the course Thomas favors--a general immigration from farms to cities would be started Past experience has shown that populations are most amenable to birth control techniques during this period of transition. Also, Thomas said, throughout history, whenever a new water technique...
Stability, light weight and low cost are the small boatman's criteria. In dinghies, Chapman Yates leads the fleet with its new 8-ft. 3-in. Hydro-Pram, available for either sail ($465) or outboard ($250). Because of a thick bottom layer of polyurethane foam, it will not capsize with a 145-lb. boy standing on its gunwale, nor sink when filled with water and two beefy men. Total weight: 90 lbs. Lighter still is the 10-ft. 4-in. Swift, George O'Day's bid for a slice of the sailboard market. Only...