hydropower resource Articles
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New approaches for medium-scale hydropower development in Vietnam : lessons from preparation of the Trung Son Hydropower Project
This paper provides an overview of the Trung Son hydropower project preparation experience and highlights the innovative features of the project, primarily focusing on the adoption of new approaches in project design and integration of social and environmental concerns. Through disseminating the Trung Son project experience, this paper is intended to contribute to the sustainable scale-up of ...
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Africa`s Hydropower Future
A gradual process of development has started yielding results for African hydropower, with a swathe of international hydro and associated power export projects under way or planned. It seems that Africa is becoming a more attractive place to invest in infrastructure development, but what has changed? It is well known that Africa has an abundance of hydropower resources, but it remains in ...
By HydroBox NV
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Introduction to some kinds of renewable energy
Clean energy is a kind of energy which does not produce pollutants in the use procedure. It includes nuclear energy and "renewable energy". Renewable energy refers to a kind of inexhaustible energy such as hydropower, wind power, solar energy, biomass energy (biogas), water energy, and tidal energy and so on. Renewable energy doesn’t have the possibility of energy depletion, and ...
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Micro Hydro Systems A basic overview of a hydro system with components explained
If you have a suitable site, harnessing the energy in a stream or creek can be the most cost-effective way to make renewable electricity. Compared to the sun and wind’s variability, a stream’s flow is relatively consistent, making microhydro-electric system output the most predictable of all the renewable energy (RE) electrical systems. Hydro resources are also the most site specific, ...
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Microhydro-Electric Systems Simplified
If you have a suitable site, harnessing the energy in a stream or creek can be the most cost-effective way to make renewable electricity. Compared to the sun and wind’s variability, a stream’s flow is relatively consistent, making microhydro-electric system output the most predictable of all the renewable energy (RE) electrical systems. Hydro resources are also the most site specific, ...
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Want a better way to power your car? It`s a breeze
Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country's wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be paying annually for imported oil. But part two of Pickens's plan--to move natural gas out of electricity production and use it to ...
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Hydropower ambitions of South Asian nations and China: Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers basins
This paper analyses the current status of hydropower development in two major rivers basins in South Asia, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. The total drainage area of the basins is about 1,660,000 km² shared by China, Nepal, India, Bhutan and Bangladesh. These two basins are blessed with ample water resources and huge hydropower potential. The abundant hydropower potential of these rivers basins ...
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In Perspective: Launching a third industrial revolution
A third industrial revolution based on new communication and energy technologies needs strong political commitments, argues David Dickson. Just before Christmas, China's official Xinhua News Agency published an article extolling the virtues of the country's incoming premier, Li Keqiang, and describing his enthusiasm for ideas that the iconoclastic US commentator Jeremy Rifkin put forward in ...
By SciDev.Net
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Optimizing Wind and Solar Power in Africa
Editor's Note: The following is a news release authored by Julie Chao and issued by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory on April 5, 2017 To meet skyrocketing demand for electricity, African countries may have to triple their energy output by 2030. While hydropower and fossil fuel power plants are favored approaches in some quarters, a new assessment by the Department of Energy’s Lawrence ...
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