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The Tsengué Lélédi Falls along the Ivindo River in Gabon. One of the potential hydropower project sites that we visited. Its within a Ramsar Site (wetland site designated to be of international importance) and adjacent to Ivindo National Park. Its an amazing spot that hopefully will not get developed.
Long time no hear - apologies Flickr Friends but travel, work, COVID, travel, rinse and repeat have kept me busy but back now and look forward to seeing all your great stuff! Here another shot from Gabon - this site on the mainstem of the Ooogue River where they are considering a dam...more later.
Cruise ship "President" has passed the canal lock chamber and is heading for the pier of the city of Uglich.
The shipping lock is a single-chamber, single-thread lock, which is part of the Uglich hydroelectric complex, located on the Volga River (water area of the Uglich reservoir) in the city of Uglich in the Yaroslavl region.
The gateway was built simultaneously with the construction of hydropower plants and was opened in the summer of 1941. The gateway is controlled from the central console and is fully automated.
The gateway is reinforced concrete, dock type. The length of the lock chamber is 290 meters, the width is 30 meters, and with the help of the lock the ships are lowered or raised 7.5 meters. Passing ships to the gateway begins on April 24 and ends on November 14-17.
The "President" is a three-deck motor ship built in Czechoslovakia and having undergone a complete renovation in 2003-2004. The motor ship makes cruises from Moscow along the Volga. In the cities of parking excursion programs are provided that allow you to learn more about these places.
Three different green textures of rice paddy, Himekawa Dam No.2 and the cliff of the Himekawa river. This photo was taken in the northern part of Hakuba village. Aoni settlement, which is famous for the view of rice terrace and Kita Alps, is on the cliff in the photo a few km from there.
It is reported that the dam was much deeper and larger when it was completed in 1935. It was quickly filled with sediments from Hakuba mountains and is now too shallow to function as a dam.
There are several such dams and hydropower plants along the Princess river to produce some electricity.
On the other hand in Itoigawa 50 km downstream on the Japan Sea coast, beaches got eroded and its coastline is now protected with tetrapods to save residential areas.
The princess was born beautiful but she has undergone too many plastic surgeries to spoil her beauty.
Panorama, Aumühle, near Pocking (Lower Bavaria). A hydropower plant has been producing electricity with Rott since 1897.
View of the outskirts of Tolmin Slovenia - pictured here a portion of the river Tolminka (I think) that is dammed for hydro-power. Several of the environmental groups working in the area are trying to ensure that as energy demand grows renewable energy avoids dams on some of the remaining free flowing rivers like the Soca.
The height and width of the dam for Kurobe-gawa Hydropower Plant No.4 or Kuroyon Dam (黒四ダム) are 186m by 492m. It is the highest dam structure in Japan. Capacity of the Kurobe-ko (黒部湖) reservoir or Lake Kurobe is 199,285,175 m3, and the installed capacity of the power plant is 335 MW
It is located in Chuubu Sangaku National Park (中部山岳国立公園). The scenic Kurobe-gawa (黒部川) gorge is notorious for steep terrains and heavy snowfall in winter. The dam was constructed in a rare wilderness area in Japan.
The completion of the project after so many technical challenges was applauded nationwide to such a degree that a movie was produced starring Toshiro Mifune, which made a big hit.
In 1950s and 60s when Kuroyon Dam was being constructed, there was a mood of optimism about technology and economic prospects for the future.
Such a large scale construction project will not be approved in the national park in the 21st century.
The huge concrete structure in the wilderness now may look like an epitaph for an innocent time of Japan.
This is a view from the lookout attached to the structure of the dam. Several GR III photos were stitched with Lightroom.
Visitors from Oogizawa who arrive by electric bus walk on the dam to the opposite side to take a funicular and a ropeway to climb the slope of Tateyama that is seen in the upper right. Altitude of Oonanji-yama (大汝山), the highest peak of Tateyama, is 3,015m. There is a Shintou shrine at the summit of Oyama (雄山 3,003m)
Classic early American (1790-1880) gristmill or wood mill. Western Connecticut. Bridgewater, CT. From the looks of the old layed concrete foundation below the water aqueduct, it probably was operational till the early 30's
Svartisen is a collective term for two glaciers located in Nordland county in northern Norway. It is part of Saltfjellet-Svartisen National Park, located in the Saltfjell mountain range. The glaciers are located in the municipalities of Beiarn, Meløy, Rana, and Rødøy. Svartisen consists of two separate glaciers that are separated by the 1-kilometre (0.62 mi) long Vesterdalen valley. The two glaciers are: Vestisen or Vestre Svartisen ("western Svartisen") has an area of 221 square kilometres (85 sq mi) which makes it the second largest glacier on the Norwegian mainland after the Jostedalsbreen glacier. (There are larger glaciers on Svalbard.)
Østisen or Østre Svartisen ("eastern Svartisen") has an area of 148 square kilometres (57 sq mi) which makes it the country's fourth largest glacier.
There are also a number of minor glaciers in the area surrounding Svartisen, such as Glombreen in the northern part of Meløy, and Simlebreen in Beiarn. One of the outlet glaciers of Svartisen, Engabreen ends at the lowest point of any glacier on the European mainland, at 20 metres (66 ft) above sea level (in 2007). The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate has monitored the glacier mass balance of the glacier since 1970 and operates a sub-glacial laboratory beneath Engabreen.
Water from the glacier is collected and used for hydropower production via runoff into the streams and lakes and through intakes bored beneath Engabreen. wikipedia
Boen Power Plant (Boenfossen) is a hydropower plant in Tveit in Kristiansand in Agder.
The power plant is located at Boen Mill, near Kjevik. It is a river power plant that exploits a fall of 13 meters in the Tovdal River.
Installed power is 1 MW. Annual production is 6 GWh.
In 2014, NVE granted a license to a new power plant that will utilize more of the water. Estimated annual production will be 23.5 GWh.
The power plant was destroyed by the big flood in 2017. In 2018 it was taken over by Bekk and Strøm. It will be rebuilt and put into operation by 2020.
A trip to Rockaway, NJ had me excited to visit the Paterson NJ Great Falls Historic Landmark waterfall before sunset.
Never enough time with a busy work schedule, but I was glad to be able to get here to at least capture this fall before nightfall.
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Kleines Kraftwerk an der Rott bei Bayerbach (Niederbayern)
Small power station on the river Rott near Bayerbach (Lower Bavaria)
Het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Amerongen is een waterstaatkundig kunstwerk in Nederland. Het bestaat uit een stuw en een schutsluis. Later kwam er ook een vistrap bij. Het is gebouwd in de Nederrijn nabij Amerongen volgens de CEMT-klasse Va. Bij dit Stuwcomplex werd in 1988 een waterkrachtcentrale gebouwd met een vermogen van 10 MW.
Het Stuwcomplex Amerongen maakt deel uit van het Stuwenensemble Hagestein / Amerongen / Driel. Het ontwerpen van dit ensemble werd gestart in 1958 in het kader van verbetering waterhuishouding Noord Nederland en bevaarbaarheid Nederrijn. Er is geen relatie met de Deltawerken. In 1960 werd als eerste het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Hagestein opgeleverd. 1965 kwam het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Amerongen gereed. In 1970 werd het Stuw- en sluizencomplex Driel als laatste van dit unieke stuwenensemble opgeleverd.
Despite its long interaction with water, the Netherlands has little potential for hydropower due to its flat topography. The Netherlands has a large resource of moving water in its major rivers but its limited hydraulic head because of little elevation change means that hydropower is a minor component of the country's renewable energy portfolio. A few small hydro plants exist but in total produce less than a tenth of a percent of the Netherlands' electricity.
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After our visit to Hengifoss we drove up the mountain to Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, I was standing on the dam when I took these pictures.
Naturally the building of the power plant raised a lot of criticism.
The area is still very beautiful.
Das 1923/24 errichtete Zweribachwerk ist eine Hochdruck-Wasserkraftanlage im Schwarzwald. Das Maschinenhaus liegt am Mittellauf der Wilden Gutach im Simonswälder Tal - The Zweribachwerk, built in 1923/24, is a high-pressure hydropower plant in the Black Forest. The powerhouse is located on the middle reaches of the Wilde Gutach in the Simonswald valley (Germany)
The Barron River is located on the Atherton Tablelands inland from Cairns in northern Queensland, Australia. With its headwaters below Mount Hypipamee, the 165-kilometre long river with a catchment area of approximately 2,138 square kilometres forms through run off from the Mount Hypipamee National Park, flows through Lake Tinaroo, and eventually empties into the Coral Sea near Smithfield.
The conceptualisation for construction of a hydroelectric power station on the Barron River was first suggested in 1906. It was nearly 30 years before completion was realised. The 3.8 MW plant was the first underground power station in Australia and supplied the Cairns area with electricity for 28 years. The site presented many challenges including precipitous cliffs, torrential rain, and raging floods. The Barron Gorge Hydroelectric Power Station (or Barron Gorge Hydro) in Queensland, Australia is an electricity power station commissioned in 1963 with a maximum capacity of 66 megawatts. It is located in the locality of Barron Gorge in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area 20 kilometres north-west of Cairns. It replaced an earlier station which was the first underground power station in the country and the first hydroelectric station in Queensland. The power station was refurbished in 2006. 23541
Water is discharged from hydropower dams during torrential rains continuing in many days. Many houses at downstream are deeply submerged. Crop plants may be ruined.
Originally constructed in 1906 to power Seattle streetcars. Powered by coal it was displaced by hydropower. It has not produced electricity since 1953. The plant is now a museum.
Kahlenberg hydropower plant at the old lock of the Mülheim water station
Erbaut 1925. Durch die Erzeugung von umweltfreundlichem Strom wird im Vergleich zur konventioneller Produktion eine Menge von etwa 18.000 Tonnen CO2 vermieden.
Buillt 1925. By generating environmentally friendly electricity, around 18,000 tons of CO2 are avoided compared to conventional production.
A photo of the hydropower facility on the Kanawha River and the waterfalls which have only about a 15 feet drop. Located near Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
Developed with Darktable 3.6.0. Two photos were combined together with the Hugin Panoramic Editor (both are freeware).
(founded 1915) Plant for producing manganese alloy. Together with the hydropower deliverer Saudefaldene it was owned by Union Carbide. Now owned by the French corporation Eramet (Wikipedia).