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Hydropower (from
Ancient Gr**** ὑδρο-, "water"), also
known as
water power, is the use of
falling or fast-running
water to
produce electricity or to power...
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Noonday Cr**** is a 20.2-mile-long (32.5 km)
stream in Cobb and
Cherokee counties in the U.S.
state of Georgia. The
stream begins near
Kennesaw Mountain...
- 1895). As
waterpower became available it was used to
generate electricity.
After the
third plant was in
operation in 1908, 45% of the
waterpower being used...
- area by
European descendants, the St.
Anthony Falls have been used for
waterpower. The
first allowed settlers were at Ft. Snelling,
where construction began...
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flour mills had been torn down, with
gravel storage on many of the sites.
Waterpower use
ended 1960. A few
mills operated into the 1960s, with the end of milling...
- in
Pawtucket that
Samuel Slater set up
Slater Mill in 1793,
using the
waterpower of the
Blackstone River to
power his
cotton mill. For a while,
Rhode Island...
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Retrieved 2016-12-12.
natural resource [...] :
something (as a mineral,
waterpower source, forest, or kind of animal) that is
found in
nature and is valuable...
- (1997).
Guidelines for
Retirement of Dams and
Hydroelectric Facilities.
Waterpower '97. ASCE. pp. 1248–1256. "Definition of a
Large Dam".
International Commission...
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medieval Islamic world. It has been
argued that the
industrial use of
waterpower had
spread from
Islamic to
Christian Spain,
where fulling mills, paper...
- climate, its
proximity to a
seaport at Liverpool, the
availability of
waterpower from its rivers, and its
nearby coal reserves. The name Manchester, though...
