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... обладает колоссальным неосвоенным гидропотенциалом

English translation: ...tremendous undeveloped hydropower potential


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Russian term or phrase:... обладает колоссальным неосвоенным гидропотенциалом
English translation:...tremendous undeveloped hydropower potential
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19:14 Jul 13, 2011
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Tech/Engineering - Energy / Power Generation
Russian term or phrase: ... обладает колоссальным неосвоенным гидропотенциалом
Россия обладает колоссальным неосвоенным гидропотенциалом, который сконцентрирован преимущественно в Восточной Сибири и на Дальнем Востоке.

Russia has a huge undeveloped (?)hydro-potential which is mostly concentrated in Eastern Siberia and Far East.
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Local time: 19:25
has tremendous undeveloped hydropower potential
Explanation:
См.: Idaho National Laboratory - Hydropower Program: Hydrofacts
hydropower.inel.gov › Hydropower Facts 5 Dec 2006 – The Department of Energy is performing a resource assessment of the undeveloped conventional hydropower potential in the U.S.
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Katerina O.
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:25
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Спасибо, Катерина!
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4 +3has substantial hydropower resources yet to be developed
Fernsucht
5has tremendous undeveloped hydropower potential
Katerina O.


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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
has substantial hydropower resources yet to be developed


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Fernsucht
United States
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Angelina White: Agree, but a better way to say "yet to be developed" would be "under-developed." For example, "Russia has a substantial amount of under-developed hydro power sources."
3 hrs
  -> wow, thanks for pointing this out. I actually DID want to say under-developed, but then "under-developed" connotes to me as "developed, but not quite final", so I passed on it in favor of the above, to better convey "неосвоенный" = not yet developed. Thxx
agree  cyhul
8 hrs
  -> с добрым утром! и спасибо :)
agree  Diana Zaripova
11 hrs
  -> благодарю
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11 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
has tremendous undeveloped hydropower potential


Explanation:
См.: Idaho National Laboratory - Hydropower Program: Hydrofacts
hydropower.inel.gov › Hydropower Facts 5 Dec 2006 – The Department of Energy is performing a resource assessment of the undeveloped conventional hydropower potential in the U.S.

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Katerina O.
Russian Federation
Local time: 19:25
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