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unusual facts about hydro-electric



Anne LeBaron

Her 1991 recording Phantom orchestra featured the Anne LeBaron Quintet (Frank London, trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Davey Williams, electric guitar; Gregg Bendian, drums, vibraphone, percussion; and Anne LeBaron, harp with electronics).

Ballyfinboy River

An electric fishing survey of the river at Ballinderry was conducted in September 2012 by Inland Fisheries Ireland.

Bariton

Baritone guitar, a six string electric guitar tuned in a low B instead of E.

Black ghost knifefish

On the other hand, when low-frequency electric fields are generated by external sources instead of the fish itself, a different class of electroreceptor organs is used for this passive electrolocation, called ampullary organs.

Buck Fever

John Whooley – tenor, alto, baritone and soprano saxophones, flute, vocals, throat singing, percussion (congas, clave, guiro, shaker, tambourine, woodblock, cowbell), accordion, piano, cp-70, electric piano, clav

Cerizay

Since June 2011, the newly developed German electric car "Mia" has been built under contract with an annual output of 10,000 units.

Classic Hot Tuna Electric

The tracks were recorded at a live electric performance on July 3, 1971 at the Fillmore West auditorium in San Francisco.

Cobasys

On July 14, 2009, the sale of Cobasys to SB LiMotive Co. Ltd., an electric vehicle battery joint venture between Samsung SDI Co. Ltd. and Robert Bosch GmbH, was announced.

Coming Days

Mick Molloy - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Mandolin, Mandola, Percussion & Backing vocals

Constant Pressure System

Although it is unknown exactly what the dispute was over, it is strongly suggested that Hasbro was suing for the Water Warriors Hydro Power water guns, which were becoming too similar to Hasbro's Constant Pressure System.

DARPA TX

The 7,500 lb AAI vehicle was proposed to be equipped with a 1,200 shp Honeywell HTS900 turboshaft engine to power four electric wheel motors or the 56-inch ducted fan, and spin up the 50-foot rotor.

Dave Laing

His books have included The Sound of our Time (1969), Buddy Holly (1970), The Electric Muse: the story of Folk into Rock (with Karl Dallas, Robin Denselow and Robert Shelton, 1975), and One Chord Wonders: Power and Meaning in Punk Rock (1985).

DRG Class ET 85

In 1924 the Waggonfabrik Fuchs coach factory in Heidelberg converted four Bavarian MCCi steam railbuses into Class ET 85 electric railbuses with running numbers 01–04.

Electric Love Muffin

Electric Love Muffin was a Philadelphia-based hard rocking quartet of the late 1980s that spiked the melodic thrash-pop of The Replacements, Soul Asylum and other indie bands of the period with touches of country/western, classic rock and prog-rock.

Electric Pentacle

The "electric pentacle" is a fictional electronic device invented by author William Hope Hodgson and used in several of his short stories about Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.

Electric Theatre

The celebrated guitarist Eric Roche (who taught Newton Faulkner) recorded a live DVD at the Electric Theatre in May 2003, Eric Roche in concert at The Electric Theatre, Guildford.

Electric Word

After the failure of Electric Word, Rossetto and his partner Jane Metcalfe moved to San Francisco, California and established Wired Magazine.

Elmore D

Other influences by more contemporary artists include the Electric Rag Band, the Country Blues Project (Germany), Preacher Boy, Gordon Smith, Paul Geremiah, Paul Rishell and Annie Raines.

Heart Electric

The music video for Heart Electric was directed by Shusuke Kaneko who is known for the Heisei Gamera trilogy, Godzilla, Mothra and King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack, and the live-action film adaptation of Death Note.

History of street lighting in the United States

In 2001, Thomas & Betts sold the street lighting division to Acuity Brands, where it was then spun off as American Electric Lighting.

Hudson v. McMillian

Many things—beating with a rubber truncheon, water torture, electric shock, incessant noise, reruns of Space: 1999—may cause agony as they occur, yet leave no enduring injury.

HŽ series 1061

The uniqueness in contrast to other Croatian electric locomotives is that it uses the 3 kV DC system, and is only deployed on the Šapjane-Rijeka-Moravice Line.

Illinois Center

In the south half of the complex, the Metra Electric Lines and the South Shore Line terminate, halfway between Michigan and Stetson Avenues, at Millennium Station.

Jenny Queen

Musicians on After The Dance include Jon Graboff of Ryan Adams and The Cardinals on pedal steel, Eric Silver on mandolin, Marc Swersky on bass, Justin King on electric guitar, Ehren Ebbage on acoustic guitar and Andy Letke of DeSol on rhodes piano and banjo.

Johnny Lee Middleton

Among the tracks on Dead Winter Dead was "Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24)", an instrumental medley of the Christmas standards "Carol of the Bells" and "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," featuring a string orchestra alongside the electric guitars.

Josephine Foster

This Coming Gladness, was released in 2008 and featured the contributions of Victor Herrero on electric guitar and percussion by Alex Neilson.

Lanskaya electric substation

4 August, 1951 in 1 hour and 30 minutes electric power dispatcher gave command to bring the current in the contact network of the first electrified in the Karelian Isthmus area Leningrad - Zelenogorsk.

Lansky

Lanskaya electric substation, an electric substation of Lanskaya railway station

Lepton

It determines the strength of the electric field generated by the particle (see Coulomb's law) and how strongly the particle reacts to an external electric or magnetic field (see Lorentz force).

Low-speed vehicle

4 e-jeeps were launched by Jejomar Binay on 2007, with 2 prototypes from Guangzhou Langqing Electric Car Co., Ltd., China at P 371,280 each.

Me and My Uncle

The earliest commercially released performance of it is from the Electric Theater in Chicago, on April 26, 1969, and is available on Dick's Picks Volume 26.

Music of Zimbabwe

Jit is a generic term for electric guitar-driven pop, and includes wildly popular groups like the New Black Eagles and the Four Brothers.

Nitrogen laser

After some time the electric charge in the avalanche becomes so large that following Coulomb's law it generates an electric field as large as the external electric field.

Nonelectrostatic electric fields

The striking difference between the two kinds of fields is that we cannot associate electric potential with points in such an electric field and that the work done by the electric force in such a field is not zero over a closed loop.

Nottingham Corporation Tramways

Powers were also sought at this time for the operation of motorbuses, and, in November, the Brush Traction Electric Engineering Company of Loughborough was approached to see if it were willing to operate two of its motorbuses in Nottingham for a trial period of three months.

Nyagak Power Station

West Nile is not connected to the Uganda National Electric Grid and is not expected to be connected to the national network until the planned 600 MW Karuma Power Station comes online in 2017.

Onehunga

The Onehunga branch will be the first in Auckland to see passenger service on the new AM class electric trains.

Power car

Multiple units (diesel or electric) usually have a mix of power cars and trailers, often with one of each in a pair which can be coupled to other pairs to form a larger train; see e.g. New Zealand FP class electric multiple unit.

RECC

REVA Electric Car Company, one of the first companies to introduce electric vehicles worldwide

Schiermonnikoog

Due to environment and health concerns, since 2013 six Chinese electric buses BYD ebus (range of about 250 km) are the only buses on the island for at least the 15 year contract period (BYD won the contract, beating its European opponents).

Smart electric drive

It is a version of Smart ForTwo electric drive designed by Jeremy Scott.

Spirits of Christmas Past

Bryan Josh – Lead Vocals (Tracks 1 and 4); Electric Guitars (1,3 and 4); Acoustic Guitars (1,2 and 4); Bass Guitar (1); Piano (1)

Sun Electric

Sun Electric have worked with graphic artist and videographer Nick Philip; "Meccano", created for MTV's Amp, was the first video played on that show.

The Truth About De-Evolution

The "Secret Agent Man" performance begins, featuring Bob Mothersbaugh on guitar, Gerald Casale on bass, Jim Mothersbaugh on electric bongos, and Mark Mothersbaugh/Booji Boy on synthesizers.

Thomson-Houston Electric Company

The Thomson-Houston Electric Company was formed in 1883 in the United States when a group of Lynn, Massachusetts investors led by Charles A. Coffin bought out Elihu Thomson and Edwin Houston's American Electric Company from their New Britain, Connecticut investors.

Tom Fun Orchestra

The band features an unconventional mix of electric and acoustic instruments, including violin, banjo, accordion, trumpet, double bass, electric guitars and drums, and have elicited comparisons to acts ranging from The Clash, Tom Waits and The Pogues to The Arcade Fire and Broken Social Scene.

Wąbrzeźno

The town is the birthplace of Walther Nernst, a chemist who in 1920 received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the Nernst equation, which gives the standard electrode potential of an electric cell containing various concentrations of electrolytes.

Walking on a Thin Line

The album was also released in a Limited Digipak edition with two bonus tracks: "Electric Nights" (inserted into the track listing between "Diokhan" and "Quietly") and "Counting the Days" (inserted after "Plastic Mouth")

Walter Travis

The Schenectady Putter was invented by Arthur F. Knight, a General Electric engineer, who created a model reflecting his ideas in the summer of 1902 at his home course, Mohawk Golf Club in Schenectady, NY.

Zamzam Well

Water levels were monitored by hydrograph, which in more recent times has changed to a digital monitoring system that tracks the water level, electric conductivity, pH, Eh, and temperature.


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Chipilima Hydro Electric Project

The Odisha government has plans for the modernisation of 5th and 6th unit of Burla Hydro Electric Project (BHEP) and 3rd unit of Chipilima Hydro Electric Project (CHEP) during the 11th five year plan tenure.

Cristoforo Benigno Crespi

In 1897 a cotton textile industry was created in the province of Milan and his factory and its worker village, called Crespi d’Adda was built on the left bank of the river Adda between the towns of Capriate San Gervasio and Canonica d’Adda where the flow of water provided hydro electric energy to power the cotton looms.

Dainis Īvāns

He has worked as a journalist since 1979 and gained the public attention in 1986, by opposing construction of another hydro-electric dam on Daugava river, near the city of Daugavpils.

Eastern Suburbs railway line

In 1967 the New South Wales Government awarded the contract for the civil and structural design of the entire line to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority (SMA), the Commonwealth Government agency responsible for the design and construction of the Snowy Mountains Scheme in south-eastern Australia.

Economy of Rhône-Alpes

There are hydro-electric plants on the river Isère (three plants), Arc (five plants), Drac and Romanche (two plants), Loire (two plants) and of course the Rhône (nine plants).

El Chorro

The path provides access to a hydro-electric plant and took its name after an official visit by Alfonso XIII of Spain in 1921.

Isaac Benson Lucas

He also served as government representative on the Hydro-Electric Commission and helped promote the development of a park in the area surrounding the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara.

Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme

The Kiewa Hydroelectric Scheme is the largest hydro-electric scheme in Victoria and the second largest in mainland Australia after the Snowy Mountains Scheme.

Mactaquac

Mactaquac Dam, a hydro-electric power generating facility on the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada

Maria Cherkasova

She is famous because of coordinating a 4-year campaign to stop construction of hydro-electric dam on the Katun River.

Miguel Ángel de Quevedo

As an engineer, he constructed the Banco de Londres y México building and pioneered the use of hydro-electric power with a plant on the Río Blanco in Orizaba, Veracruz.

Nicholas Biwott

This period that saw rapid advances in efforts to improve Kenya's electricity supply and delivery with a rural electrification programme, work beginning on the Sondu Mirei Dam, and the completions of the Masinga Multi Purpose Dam, the Kiambere Hydro Electric Dam and the Turkwell Hydro Electric Multi Purpose Dam.

Oyan River Dam

In November 2009 the Minister of Power, Rilwan Lanre Babalola paid an inspection visit to the dam and said the Federal Government had earmarked a substantial sum for rehabilitation of hydro-electric Dams across the country.

Pougny, Ain

It lies near the border with Switzerland and is the first French village to be crossed by the Rhone, and a hydro-electric station constructed in 1926 which it shares with the Swiss village of Chancy is named after it.

SMEC Holdings

Between 1949 and 1974 the Snowy Mountains Authority (SMA) undertook a massive hydro-electric and irrigation project, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.

SNC Lavalin scandal

In 1992, the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) of India rejected a proposal of Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) to renovate the three hydro-electric power projects at Pallivasal, Sengulam and Panniar instead the CEA recommended a capacity upgradation of the generators in these three power projects, after they found that these projects are in good condition.

Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

Controversy in 1979 over the proposed Lower Gordon hydro-electric power scheme, which would have meant flooding the Franklin River led to the creation of the Franklin-Lower Gordon Wild Rivers National Park in 1981 (construction of the dam was stopped by a court ruling in 1983).

Tignes

After the second world war, France needed electricity and it was decided to build the hydro-electric Tignes Dam in the Isère valley.