Tag: Hydropower - Page 3
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Green vs. Brown - 5 Countries Using Plenty of Renewable Energy & 5 Who Use None
The United States has a long road ahead in transforming its electrical generation to greener sources of power, no doubt about that. But not every nation faces the same energy
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China Wants 20 More Dams on the Headwaters of the Yangtze River
Not content with the Three Gorges Dam, at the 3rd Yangtze Forum in Shanghai it's come out that China
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Spanish Island of El Hierro's Carbon Neutral Energy Plans Soon to be Completed
A couple years ago TreeHugger highlighted the efforts of the island of El Hierro (one of the smaller of the Canary Islands, with a population of about 10,000) to make the switch over to generating all of its power from renewable energy
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What is Blue Energy Anyway? Two Takes on Osmotic Power
Here's one more way to harness the power of water to create energy: It's been dubbed Blue Energy by Ode Magazine in a recent article and involves harnessing the energy released from the process of osmosis. All you need for
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China Builds Dam on Indus, Doesn't Tell Pakistan
If you're already on TreeHugger it's safe to assume that you've got an interested in what lies under the great green umbrella. And, now, if you've also got an
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Ireland Offers New Feed-In Tariff for Small-Scale Renewable Energy, For a Limited Time
In an effort to kick-start small-scale renewable energy development at homes and farms, Ireland has established a new feed-in tariff program. But
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Ontario Proposes Massive Renewable Energy Boost With New Feed-In Tariff Program
Renewable energy in Ontario could get a massive financial boost with newly proposed feed-in tariff rates. Though Ontario has had feed-in tariffs for about two years, the project size was capped at 10 MW, under the newly proposed rates that cap is lifted
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5 Good Ways to Get Green Power Into Your Home
photo: Oregon DOT via flickr
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Dam May Have Triggered Massive China Earthquake
When it struck, we worried that May's massive Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan province could catastrophically imperil nearby dams. Now a growing number of scientists are suggesting that the quake was triggered by the weight of a reservoir created by a
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China Mulls Building Hydroelectric Dams in Southern Tibet
In a move that is sure to prove increasingly controversial as the details become more fleshed out, Chinese officials in Lhasa, Tibet have indicated that they are considering developing a series of dams in
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Piezoelectric Hydropower System May Power 20-40% of Pennsylvania Town
Hydroelectric power generally conjures up images of massive dams creating reservoirs behind them, submerging trees and sometimes even towns. While technically a form of renewable energy (and generally included by most countries when
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UN Launches Zero Emission Community Power Center in Kenya
The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has sponsored a Community Power Center in the Kenyan village of Kibae on the slopes of Mount Kenya some 150 kilometers from Nairobi.
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Small-scale Hydro Allows AK Family to Live Off-Grid
When I think about people who live off the grid the first thing that pops to mind isn’t hydropower. Solar panels, small wind turbines, geothermal? Yes. Technology that dates back to 1870? No. Granted, the
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China Earthquake Threatens Nearby Dams, Environment (UPDATED)
UPDATE: The extensive damage done to dams by the earthquake, some have speculated, may lead the government to strengthen its review process for dam building. Meanwhile, concerns that dams may be responsible for seismic activity, persist. See this LA
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Goldman Environmental Prize Winner Yu Xiaogang on Hydropower and Community in China
This is the last in a series of interviews with previous winners of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Founded in 1990, the prize is given annually to six grassroots environmentalists working for change around the globe. So far, we've met a salmon saver
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Tapping the Power of the Mighty Mississippi: Thousands of Hydrokinetic Turbines Could Generate 1600 MW
Swing by the Mississippi River a few years from now, and you may be surprised to see hundreds of thousands of miniature electric turbines dotting the fast moving river's bed. All the electricity generated by this massive "in stream" hydrokinetic project
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Three Gorges: China's Own Dam Problem
Compared to coal, hydropower is clean. But China's grandest, half-century-old approach to meeting its energy demands "cleanly" is arguably as much a solution as it is a problem. And there is no better symbol of the necessity and danger of dams than
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Yahoo! Jumps Aboard the Carbon Offseting Bandwagon
Now before you start rolling your eyes and muttering something about "greenwashing," hear the folks at Yahoo! out on this. The good news is that - unlike many carbon offsetting programs we've read/heard about - this one actually seems to be doing some
