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2. Solar tracker - Wikipedia

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   A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the Sun. Payloads are usually solar panels , parabolic troughs , Fresnel reflectors , lenses , or the mirrors of a heliostat . For flat-panel photovoltaic systems , trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic panel , sometimes ...

3. Marine canvas - Wikipedia

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   Marine canvas refers to a varied array of fabrics used in the fabrication and production of awnings, covers, tarps, sunshades, signs and banners for the advertising, boating, trucking, tenting, structural and medical industries. The term "marine canvas" is also used more narrowly to refer specially to boat cover products.

4. Floating solar - Wikipedia

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   The construction process for a floating solar project includes installing anchors and mooring lines that attach to the waterbed or shore, assembling floats and panels into rows and sections onshore, and then pulling the sections by boat to the mooring lines and secured into place. [14] [25]

5. Mooring - Wikipedia

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   Mooring involves (a) beaching the boat, (b) drawing in the mooring point on the line (where the marker buoy is located), (c) attaching to the mooring line to the boat, and (d) then pulling the boat out and away from the beach so that it can be accessed at all tides.

6. Mooring (oceanography) - Wikipedia

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   Mooring as deployed in Fram Strait with top buoy, a CTD-sensor, two rotor current meters, acoustic release and train wheels as anchor. A mooring in oceanography is a collection of devices connected to a wire and anchored on the sea floor. It is the Eulerian way of measuring ocean currents, since a mooring is

7. Infrared homing - Wikipedia

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   One such system developed by the US Army Air Force (USAAF), known as the "Sun Tracker", was being developed as a possible guidance system for an intercontinental ballistic missile. Testing this system led to the 1948 Lake Mead Boeing B-29 crash. [20] USAAF project MX-798 was awarded to Hughes Aircraft in 1946 for an infrared tracking missile ...