scholarly journals Legal obstacles and incentives to the development of small scale hydroelectric power in New York

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
None
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Hydroelectric Power

Water Level Control of Small-scale Hydroelectric Power Plant

2002 ◽  
Vol 122 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-994
Author(s):  
Shinichiro Endo ◽  
Masami Konishi ◽  
Hirosuke Imabayashi ◽  
Hayami Sugiyama
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Water Level ◽  
Hydroelectric Power Plant ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Level Control

Brooklyn's agrarian questions

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan Weissman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Justice ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Food Network ◽  
Alternative Food Network ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

AbstractThroughout the USA, urban agriculture is expanding as a manifestation of an emerging American food politics. Through a case study of Brooklyn, New York, I used mixed qualitative research methods to investigate the political possibilities of urban agriculture for fostering food justice. My findings build on the existing alternative food network (AFN) literature by indicating that problematic contradictions rooted in the neoliberalization of urban agriculture limit the transformative possibilities of farming the city as currently practiced in Brooklyn. I suggest that longstanding agrarian questions—concerns over the relationship between agriculture and capitalism and the politics of small-scale producers—are informative for critical interrogation of urban agriculture as a politicization of food.

The “Pre-Colombian” Era of Drug Trafficking in the Americas: Cocaine, 1945-1965

2007 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Gootenberg
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Young Women ◽  
Drug Trafficking ◽  
Hot Spots ◽  
Illicit Drug ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Scale Production ◽  
New Class ◽  
The Andes

Before anyone heard of Colombiannarcotraficantes, a new class of international cocaine traffickers was born between 1947 and 1964, led by little-known Peruvians, Bolivians, Chileans, Cubans, Mexicans, Brazilians, and Argentines. These men—and often daring young women—anxiously pursued by U.S. drug agents, pioneered the business of illicit cocaine, a drug whose small-scale production in the Andes remained legal and above board until the late 1940s. Before 1945, cocaine barely existed as an illicit drug; by 1950, a handful of couriers were smuggling it by the ounce from Peru; by the mid-1960s this hemispheric flow topped hundreds of kilos yearly, linking thousands of coca farmers across the eastern Andes to crude labs, organized trafficking rings, and a bustling retailer diaspora in consuming hot-spots like New York and Miami. The Colombians of the 1970s, the Pablo Escobars who leveraged this network into one of hundreds of tons, worth untold billions, are today notorious. Yet historians have yet to uncover their modest predecessors or the actual start of Colombia's role: cocaine's “pre-Colombian” origins.

scholarly journals Understanding Public Views on a Dam Construction Boom: the Role of Values

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (14) ◽  
pp. 4687-4700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Schulz ◽  
Julia Martin-Ortega ◽  
Klaus Glenk
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Household Survey ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Dam Construction ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Value Conflict ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Under Construction

AbstractLarge numbers of dams for hydroelectric power production are currently planned or under construction in many areas around the world. While positive and negative social and environmental impacts of dams are increasingly well understood, little is known about attitudes of the general public towards dams, even though benefits to wider society are often cited to legitimise their construction. In Brazil’s Upper Paraguay River Basin, more than 100 mostly small-scale hydropower dams are planned or under construction in what can be considered a regional dam construction boom. Here we analyse public preferences for strategies to manage dam impacts in the area by investigating the value base that underpins such preferences, drawing on the recently proposed Value Landscapes Approach as our theoretical framework and data from a large representative household survey (N = 1067). We find that contrasting attitudes towards dams, expressed in preferences for economically or ecologically oriented water policies are informed by opposing underlying value landscapes, that is, groups of closely related fundamental, governance-related, and assigned (water) values. While such tensions between opposing values can never be fully eliminated, our research nevertheless gives insights to policy-makers seeking to minimise value conflict and to improve the political legitimacy of public decision-making on dam construction. Moreover, we find that a majority of members of the general public would prefer concentrating dam construction on some rivers while keeping others free-flowing, with direct implications for ecosystems and inland fisheries. This finding may guide policy-makers wishing to develop publicly supported water resources management strategies.

Designing and Installing a Retrofit Heated Green Roof Using Either Co-Gen Waste Hot Water or Municipal Waste Steam Heat as Energy Source

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Dell ◽  
C. S. Wei ◽  
Raj Parikh ◽  
Runar Unnthorsson ◽  
William Foley
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Waste Heat ◽  
Green Roof ◽  
Cooling Water ◽  
District Heating ◽  
Green Roofs ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Small Scale

Municipal District Heating Services and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can produce waste heat in the form of steam condensate and hot water. The authors have developed a system to use this thermal pollution to heat the soil and growth medium of green roofs and outdoor gardens. The system enables plant life to survive colder climates and increases growth often in excess of 20% (Power2013-98172). In New York City test heated green roofs, the system can save vast amounts of normally required cooling water that is tapped from the overburdened municipal supply (IMECE2013-65200). Existing small scale green roofs in New York City and larger scale heated green roof retrofit in New York City is presented to indicate additional construction details, thermal considerations, and potential code compliance considerations.

Ecophenotypic variability during times of evolutionary stasis in Middle DevonianActinopteria(Bivalvia, Pterioidea) from New York

2018 ◽  
Vol 92 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Nagel-Myers ◽  
Christopher A. McRoberts ◽  
Cullen W. LaPoint
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Flow Rate ◽  
Middle Devonian ◽  
Filtration Rate ◽  
Taxonomic Status ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Bivalve Species ◽  
Single Variable ◽  
Geometric Morphometric ◽  
Evolutionary Stasis

AbstractWe examine the morphological variation of a Paleozoic pterineid during a time of relative ecological and taxonomic stability in the Middle Devonian Appalachian Basin in central and eastern New York. We discuss the taxonomic status of the Middle Devonian bivalveActinopteria boydi(Conrad, 1842) and quantify the variability of its shell disk as well as the width and angle of the auricles and sulci of this otherwise character-poor bivalve species using geometric morphometric techniques employing Cartesian landmarks. We compare variants from three stratigraphic levels (Skaneateles, Ludlowville, and Moscow formations) and from different habitats characterized by lithofacies.The phenotypic variation observed in our data does not amount to an overall directional shift in morphology, i.e., they constitute reversible changes of morphology in a single variable taxon. Our study finds small-scale variation in morphology that represents evidence for ecophenotypic variation through ~3–4 Myr. Differences in substrate coupled with water energy seem to impact this taxon’s morphology. Although no clearly separated groups can be observed, material from muddy facies develops variants with, on average, rounder and broader shell disks than are found in material from silty facies. This morphology could have increased the flow rate of water channeled over the posterior shell portion thereby improving filtration rate, which is especially beneficial in environments with low water energy.

scholarly journals Come Together—The Development of Swedish Energy Communities

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1056 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dick Magnusson ◽  
Jenny Palm
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Solar Photovoltaics ◽  
Grassroots Innovations ◽  
The Uk

Community energy (CE) and grassroots innovations have been widely studied in recent years, especially in the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands, but very little focus has been placed on Sweden. This paper describes and analyses the development and present state of several types of community energy initiatives in Sweden. The methodology uses interviews, document studies, analysis of previous studies, and website analysis. The results show that fewer initiatives have been taken in Sweden than in other countries, but that even with a rather ‘hostile’ institutional setting CE has emerged as a phenomenon. Wind cooperatives are the most common form of initiative, with solar photovoltaics cooperatives and eco-villages also prominent. The various types of initiatives differ considerably, from well-organized wind cooperatives that have grown into professional organizations to small-scale hydroelectric power plants owned by a rural community. The initiatives may have modest impact on the energy transition in quantitative terms, but they are crucial in knowledge sharing and as inspirations for future initiatives.

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