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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...
- 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...
- 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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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...
- and only
several feet away, and
waterpower drove the
machinery of the
various industries located on its floor."
Waterpower was used for
crushing wheat, sieving...
- semi-automated
factories on a
previously unimaginable scale in
places where waterpower was not available.
Later development led to
steam locomotives and great...
- the 16th century. This
mechanical device was, in some areas,
driven by
waterpower. The worm gear
roller gin,
which was
invented in the
Indian subcontinent...
- 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...
- (1997).
Guidelines for
Retirement of Dams and
Hydroelectric Facilities.
Waterpower '97. ASCE. pp. 1248–1256. "Definition of a
Large Dam".
International Commission...
