How to Use hydro in a Sentence

hydro

noun
Definition of hydronext
  • Could San Juan County be home to the country’s largest pump-hydro plant?
    — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Apr. 2021
  • The islands are ripe with fuel for wind, hydro and tidal power.
    — Sarah Kollmorgen, Discover Magazine, 28 May 2015
  • Fields and billboards whizzed by as Craig explained, from the back seat, that Quidnet had patented a new kind of pumped hydro.
    — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Some of these wildcats require their brass to be fire- or hydro-formed before use.
    — John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 5 Oct. 2020
  • Depending on the next couple of months, that may allow solar to pass hydro on the list of renewables.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Less than 12 percent of their energy comes from renewables, with most from wood and hydro.
    — Bjorn Lomborg, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2022
  • And the way to do that has to be through low-carbon energies, ideally wind, solar, tidal, hydro, or nuclear.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The hydro going to industry is from rivers spinning gristmills.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 8 Dec. 2020
  • Behind the scenes, the property uses wind, solar, and hydro energy sources to help power the hotel.
    — Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 3 Sep. 2023
  • The lightweight, cordless device vacuums and mops, as it's equipped with powerful suction and hydro mopping that can be done at the same time that makes cleaning a breeze.
    — Nicol Natale, Peoplemag, 16 Feb. 2023
  • But hydro is not a top priority for federal and state water projects.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Indonesia also has great potential for pumped hydro energy storage, so the lights can still stay on when the Sun isn’t shining.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Solar surpassed hydro on a monthly basis in September 2022, but next year will be the first time the threshold is crossed on an annual basis.
    — Will Wade, Fortune, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Today, our grid consists of a mix of fossil fuels, nuclear, solar, wind, hydro and some other sources.
    — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • Young said the state is too reliant on oil, and should look at expanding hydro and geothermal energy production.
    — Aubrey Wieber, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2020
  • The house features a hot tub, Hammam, two massage rooms and an automatic hydro massage machine for tired skier legs.
    — Everett Potter, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • In contrast to wind, hydro or geothermal power, solar has a key advantage of being quick to install.
    — William Mathis, Fortune, 3 June 2023
  • But liquid air takes up a fraction of the footprint of pumped hydro and compressed air and doesn’t require elevation changes or large underground caverns.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2019
  • Some picks: the Neutrogena multi-use makeup stick, the hydro boost concealer, and hydro boost water gel.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 25 July 2023
  • Strengthening these power pools and binding them more tightly together may allow solar and wind to take over when hydro falters, and vice versa.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Sep. 2023
  • That time of year also becomes drier and days are shorter, reducing hydro and solar power, officials have said.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 28 July 2023
  • Today that's much more likely to be a mix of natural gas, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro and possibly a coal plant or two, plus electricity stored in battery farms.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The Neutrogena hydro boost water gel is seriously a fave beauty secret of mine!
    — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 1 Sep. 2020
  • In 2016, Pedretti received a call from Gross asking him to help design a very different kind of structure: an energy storage device that would re-create pumped hydro without the need for mountains.
    — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 4 Jan. 2022
  • With nuclear and hydro power relatively unchanged for years at about 19% and 10% respectively, the majority of the increase has come from the rapid build-out of solar and wind power, whose costs have plummeted in the past two decades.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
  • China uses considerable solar, wind and hydro power, but still relies on coal for three-fifths of its electricity.
    — Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 18 July 2023
  • Their hydro-flector materials are great at wicking away moisture and repelling wind to keep you comfortable for a full day of skiing, and the extra padding can help protect your hands during a range of activities.
    — Taylor Fox, Travel + Leisure, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The same analyst insists, despite the global prevalence of pumped hydro and the significant increases in different types of battery chemistries, that all energy storage would be lithium ion.
    — Michael Barnard, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Depending on conditions, California ISO managers say hydro generation changes frequently — sometimes even from one hour to the next.
    — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Feb. 2024
  • In the last two years, this has opened the floodgates to miners seeking its comparatively positive reception to bitcoin mining, coupled with its abundance of energy sources—chiefly hydro—to its optimal weather and cheap energy costs.
    — Abubakar Nur Khalil, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024

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