Besides tapping into the Northeastern grid, Vermont could import more power from Hydro Quebec, a giant dam system in Canada that already accounts for a third of Vermont's electricity, but that would probably help push up prices.
Up and down the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers in southeastern Turkey, villages inhabited since the beginning of civilization are being flooded into watery oblivion by a vast dam system.
Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu River in western China that scientists have warned could ruin one of the country's last unspoiled places, according to news reports in China and Hong Kong.
A6 Chinese Dam Project Delayed Prime Minister Wen Jiabao has unexpectedly suspended plans for a massive dam system on the Nu River in western China that scientists have warned could ruin one of the country's last unspoiled places.
"Where would you be without all your dams?" I was asked on my first trip to South Africa, which then was building a huge dam system to transfer water from its poor, landlocked neighbor of Lesotho.
Zeidenberg successfully represented both Xi and Sherry Chen, a National Weather Service hydrologist accused of passing information about the national dam system to a Chinese official.
Flood-control dams, for instance, tempt people to live close to rivers; so, when a catastrophic flood overwhelms the dam system, as happened along the Mississippi in 1993, the damage is far greater than if people had given the river a respectfully wide berth.
Although a considerably different design from the DAM system, video-tracking of movement is perhaps the most accurate method to-date for studying Drosophila sleep.
Flies can be monitored either in glass tubes that are standard with the DAM system or in a makeshift arena designed such that movement is confined to a fixed focal plane.
The locomotor activity patterns of individual experimental and control males were recorded by the Drosophila Activity Monitoring (DAM) system (Trikinetics) for a period of 10 consecutive days using the 1-min bin acquisition mode.
