Sentence examples for lost hydropower from inspiring English sources

Advocates say other sources of power, including wind, can compensate for the lost hydropower.

Further down the river young activists, who had earlier that year been shot at by the police during political protests, filmed me as I talked in Khmer about the natural beauty of the area – and all that stood to be lost by building a hydropower dam there.

Tokyo Electric is trying to make up the lost generating capacity by restarting shuttered plants, repairing the damaged ones, tapping hydropower reserves and temporarily operating gas turbines.

The deaths result from conflicts over mining, hydropower dams, plantations and logging, with three-quarters of the lives lost being in South America.

"Because the moment you mix the two things, it becomes controversial and creates apprehensions that Nepal may be losing its water in the name of letting India develop its hydropower, that was why India's recent proposal generated controversy and so we have asked our government to stay clear of that".

Andrew Mitchell, a leading forests expert and director of the Global Canopy Programme, said: "The Amazon provides the vital rainfall on which Brazil's crops and hydropower depend, as well as regulating the global climate for the rest of us; losing all that is too big a price to pay".

As a result of poor grid transmission and energy theft, for example, India loses about 20 to 30 percent of the total power it generates annually — an amount that is greater than current hydropower production.

"I lose, lose, lose".

Water (small-scale hydropower).

-Suggested online resource: Nationmaster's "Hydropower" entry (//www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Hydropower).

Hydropower provides a modest net benefit.