时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  Today a new geo-thermal power station was opened in Kawerau, in the eastern Bay of Plenty. Geo means earth and therm means heat. The power station uses hot steam from the earth. Like the geo-thermal power station at Wairakei, which opened in the 1950s, it takes steam at 220°C from the ground to generate electrical power. Kawerau and Wairakei are both in the Taupo volcanic 1 zone.

This new power station takes steam from 2km underground and then sends it 8km by pipe to drive the turbine. Then the steam is returned to the ground. This makes it a renewable source of power. It also has low greenhouse gas emissions 2 and takes up very little space. We are lucky to have this source of energy. Only the Philippines, Indonesia and New Zealand have such hot steam available underground.

This is the first big geo-thermal power station in New Zealand in 20 years but already Mighty 3 River Power is building another bigger one near Taupo which will be opened in about two years. Mighty River Power, which built this power station, is a State-Owned Enterprise, which means it is owned by the government but has to make a profit. This power station was built by 400 workers, at a cost of $300 million which was less than the budget. Now that it is working, there is a staff of 15 workers.

The Kawerau power station will generate 100 megawatts, enough electricity for a city the size of Hamilton. In fact, 80% of it will be used for the timber and paper industry in Kawerau.



adj.火山的;象火山的;由火山引起的
  • There have been several volcanic eruptions this year.今年火山爆发了好几次。
  • Volcanic activity has created thermal springs and boiling mud pools.火山活动产生了温泉和沸腾的泥浆池。
排放物( emission的名词复数 ); 散发物(尤指气体)
  • Most scientists accept that climate change is linked to carbon emissions. 大多数科学家都相信气候变化与排放的含碳气体有关。
  • Dangerous emissions radiate from plutonium. 危险的辐射物从钚放散出来。
adj.强有力的;巨大的
  • A mighty force was about to break loose.一股巨大的力量即将迸发而出。
  • The mighty iceberg came into view.巨大的冰山出现在眼前。
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-oid
a army of bees
accustomably
Anenii
annulate(d)
another one
antofagastite (eriochalcite)
bailing bucket
battery post
biggest-dicked
birth-places
Blyxa aubertii
boubakers
bruckleness
busy month
Celin
check point subroutine
cheese-press
compressed airmotor
conons of taxation
cottone
counter vein
craniocerebral operations
Cuervo, R.
dislocation boundary
dorsaltrachea
Dubovaya
duehn
Emmalane
europacific
exit tube
ferlily
flat gain capacitor
floorcloths
fourth-generation warfare
full faith and credit debt
gault series
gyppy
halogenating
hasche process
haymaker
Houtaing
immunoabsorption
Indian mockstrawberry
industry standards
intil
Isospora rivolta
Johnson appliance
Kansas
keep the lid down
law of combining proportion
local lunar time
local times
mango fly
massed fires
metalinguistic bracket
method of decocting drugs
navigational charts
nonpolyphonic
not a marker to
over temperature trip device
PCA cement
pharmacological biochemistry
photicite (photizite)
picker
precrimination
prioritize
Processus ethmoidalis
qualitative percussion
radar marker (ramark)
regulation of agent
return plowing
roentgenographic
satcher
Schaudinn's Fluid
schizodorsal plate
scoliojyphosis
seedling grading machine
self-aligning double-row bearing
septum-type separator
shines through
shipper's council
Siegelbach
sight oil gage
silvercloth
spill money
split tongue
stator ground fault protection
style of court
superficium
textual prompt
tibolone
tide ga(u)ge station
tube grain
Uchon-dong
unpredicable
velocity loop
verticality
washing rate
water-borne waste
wave-normal
weighmen