However, to build the dams often cause irreversible environmental damage despite the fact that the mills do not emit harmful CO2 emissions into the atmosphere.
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That means it can, says the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy, potentially generate 233 megawatts of hydropower without having to build any dams bigger than 100 feet.
In each of these cases, an upstream country plans to build large dams to develop hydropower and irrigation systems, which will likely have significant negative impacts on the downstream neighbor.
But if we were buying so much military hardware, how could we build so many dams and bridges--103 with another 23 under construction.
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Its main solution is to build more large dams (390 are under construction), and river diversions, including a long-mooted extravaganza of 30 linkages which would unite most of India's river basins.
The Lao government has plans to build a series of dams along the Nam Ou River, which would have a profound impact on the area.
But China, Southeast Asia, India and oil-rich Russia are in a rush to build roads, airports and dams.
Ask yourselves -- where would we be right now if the people who sat here before us decided not to build our highways, not to build our bridges, our dams, our airports?
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They build the roads, bridges, dams, ports and railways that China needs to sustain its rapid economic growth.
China is financing ESL's new vessels, which will have improved cranes and holds for handling more complex cargoes, such as the colossal turbines needed to build Ethiopia's new hydroelectric dams.
Tanaka suggested that for starters the world needs each year to build 90 utility-scale concentrated solar plants, 17, 000 windmills, two Three Gorges Dams, and 18 nuclear plants.
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