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unusual facts about hydro-electric dam



Alma, Quebec

The area became an important industrial center during the 1920s and 1930s with the construction of a hydro-electrical dam on the Grande-Décharge River, a paper mill (Price) and an aluminum smelting plant (Alcan), all of which are still in activity today.

Astra C

On 22 March 1913, using at least one Astra CM Hydro-avion, French operator Compagnie Générale Transaérienne started the world's first scheduled passenger-carrying flights, operating from Cannes to Nice.

Bratsberg Line

During the 1920s the two companies brought their disagreements to court; on 7 April 1923 the Supreme Court ruled in favor of NSB, and Norsk Hydro had to continue subsidizing operations.

Chaira Hydro Power Plant

The Chaira Pumped Storage Hydro Power Plant (Chaira PSHPP) was built in Rila mountains, about 100 km southeast of capital city, Sofia.

Champlain Hudson Power Express

Late in January 2013, Hydro-Québec formally filed a project notice to build the Quebec part of the line to the Quebec Minister of Sustainable Devleopment, Environnement, Wildlife and Parks, Yves-François Blanchet.

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.

Chyetverikov

Unemployedin 1933, Chyetverikov turned to the division for design for gliders and propeller-driven sleighs (OSGA) of NII GVF(Naoochno-Issledovatel'skiy Institoot Grazdahnskovo Vozdooshnovo Flota - scientific test institute for civil air fleet) with the proposal for creation of aircraft for the submarines (SPL and Hydro-1).

Cindrel Mountains

On the Cibin river and on the Sadu river dams and hydro-electrical power plants were constructed, the oldest being the one from Sadu in 1896.

Cody Floatplane

The Cody Floatplane (also referred to as the Cody Hydro-biplane) was designed and built by Samuel Franklin Cody as an entrant in the 1913 Daily Mail Circuit of Britain race, which offered a prize of £5,000.

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.

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.

Devin Hydro Power Plant

The Devin Hydro Power Plant is an active hydro power project in Devin, Bulgaria.

Dniester Hydroelectric Station

Both Dniester Hydroelectric Station and Dniester Pumped Storage Power Station are administered by the Ukrainian Hydro-Energy Administration and compose the Dniester Cascade of power stations.

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).

Engineering News-Record

Award of Excellence recipients include Robert Boyd, who brought engineering and managing excellence to Hydro-Québec's $15-billion James Bay project, Fazlur

Franz Weber

In 1983 Weber battled against the destruction of the alluvial forests of the Danube between Hainburg and Vienna in Austria to build a hydro-electrical complex.

French 75

The Canon de 75 modèle 1897, an innovative design that introduced, for the first time in field artillery history, a hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism keeping the gun stable during firing and thus permitting high rates of accurate shell delivery.

Friðrik Klemenz Sophusson

As director of Iceland's state-run energy firm Landsvirkjun, Friðrik has been among the most active proponents of the controversial hydro-electric dam at Kárahnjúkar in eastern Iceland.

GO Transit

The design was created by Gangon/Valkus, a Montreal-based design firm that was also responsible for the corporate identities of Canadian National and Hydro-Québec.

Guthega Power Station

The power station's purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and it is the first completed and smallest of the seven hydroelectric power stations that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

H. H. Couzens

Couzens resigned his positions as general manager of Toronto Hydro and of the TTC in 1924, and joined the Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Co. a Canadian-owned utility based in Brazil, with extensive holdings in South America, and later became vice-president of the company.

Hydro Thunder

The gameplay of Hydro Thunder consists of racing high-tech speedboats through treacherous environments, from the cold seas of the Arctic Circle, to a post-apocalyptic, flooded version of New York City.

Interlocking

The inventors of the hydro-pneumatic system moved forward to an electro-pneumatic system in 1891 and this system, best identified with the Union Switch & Signal Company, was first installed on the Chicago and Northern Pacific Railroad at its drawbridge across the Chicago River.

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.

John Pringle Nichol

He recorded an account of his drug-addiction illness and its cure by hydrotherapy at the Ben Rhydding Hydro in his book Memorials from Ben Rhydding (1852).

Kyocera Hydro

Hydro is a smartphone designed and manufactured by Kyocera.

Lady Octopus

Lady Octopus has been hired by Walter Declun (a former member of Damage Control) to assist Absorbing Man, Hydro-Man, Killer Shrike, a Mandroid, Porcupine II, and Rock to defend him from Black Panther and the Fantastic Four after they uncovered his plot to destabilize all of Wakanda on Doctor Doom's behalf.

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.

Murray Two Dam

The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Nitrophosphate process

Today, only Yara (Norsk Hydro), BASF, AgroLinz, and GNFC still use the Odda process.

Norman Charles Harris

He worked for the Canadian Pacific Railway followed by the Hydro-Electric Power Co. in Tasmania and in 1913 became a draftsman for the Victoria Railways and then joining his father in the rolling stock division.

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.

Renewable energy in Australia

Power stations owned by Pacific Hydro include wind farms: Codrington Wind Farm, Challicum Hills Wind Farm, Portland Wind Project and Hydro power: Eildon Pondage Power Station, Ord River Hydro Power Station and The Drop Hydro.

Résistance internationaliste

In 2004, shortly before U.S. President George W. Bush's visit to Canada, a Hydro-Québec electric tower along the Quebec – New England Transmission circuit in the Eastern Townships of Quebec near the Canada-U.S. border was damaged by explosive charges detonated at its base.

Saint John Energy

Saint John Energy, formerly known as Power Commission of the City of Saint John and Civic Hydro, is the electrical utility reseller of power purchased from NB Power in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Shulbinsk Hydroelectric Power Plant

The Shulbinsk Hydro Power Plant (Шульбинская ГЭС) is a hydro power plant on the middle reach of the Irtysh River, 70 km up the stream from Semipalatinsk in East Kazakhstan Province of Kazakhstan.

Sili, Samoa

The hydro project had received backing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which had been assisting the Samoan government and its Electric Power Corporation (EPC) to make high priority investment in renewable energy project.

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.

Southern Railway 4501

On January 8, 2014, Norfolk Southern announced on their Facebook page (by sharing a picture that was posted by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum) that 4501 passed its FRA hydro test, and that all of its wheels were placed back underneath it.

Stick to Your Vision

Most of the video was shot in Toronto's St. James Town neighbourhood, also featuring scenes in a hydro field.

Tignes

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

Tumut Pond Dam

The dam's main purpose is for the generation of hydro-power and is one of the sixteen major dams that comprise the Snowy Mountains Scheme, a vast hydroelectricity and irrigation complex constructed in south-east Australia between 1949 and 1974 and now run by Snowy Hydro.

Vancouver Convention Centre

The new west Building expansion is certified LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Platinum and is designated a PowerSmart Convention Centre by BC Hydro.

Vladivostok Air

Construction also began on two airfields; a hydro-airport (seaplane port) in Vladivostok's Second River region and another named Ozernye Klyuchi (Lake Springs/Озерные Ключи), (which is now part of the current Vladivostok International Airport) near Artyom.

Water Warriors

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 Super Soaker's Constant Pressure System.

Hydro-Power is an alternative to the patented Super Soaker Constant Pressure System (CPS).

Yukon Energy

YEC has developed a grid that connects hydro facilities in Whitehorse (Schwatka Lake Dam - 40 MW from four wheels, the fourth added in 1983), Aishihik Lake - 30 MW, and the YECL facilities at Fish Lake near Whitehorse.


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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.

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.