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Hydropower (from
Ancient Gr**** ὑδρο-, "water"), also
known as
water power or
water energy, is the use of
falling or fast-running
water to
produce electricity...
- A water-fuelled car is an
automobile that
hypothetically derives its
energy directly from water. Water-fuelled cars have been the
subject of
numerous international...
- encomp****es one of the most
significant ****emblages of 19th-century
waterpowered mill
technology in the
American South. A
National Historic Landmark District...
- climate, its
proximity to a
seaport at Liverpool, the
availability of
waterpower from its rivers, and its
nearby coal reserves. The name Manchester, though...
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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...
- (1997).
Guidelines for
Retirement of Dams and
Hydroelectric Facilities.
Waterpower '97. ASCE. pp. 1248–1256. "Definition of a
Large Dam".
International Commission...
- 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...
- Harper—who was also a millwright—realized the
potential of the
latent waterpower from the
Shenandoah and
Potomac Rivers at
their confluence. He paid Stephens...
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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...
- took over
large tracts of
forests and
grazing land.
Acreage important to
waterpower was
seized by
private concerns.
Mining companies practiced improper and...
