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  2. Eglin AFB Site C-6 - Wikipedia

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    Eglin AFB Site C-6 is a United States Space Force radar station which houses the AN/FPS-85 phased array radar, associated computer processing system(s), and radar control equipment designed and constructed for the U. S. Air Force by the Bendix Communications Division, Bendix Corporation.

  3. Peaking power plant - Wikipedia

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    Peaking power plants, also known as peaker plants, and occasionally just "peakers", are power plants that generally run only when there is a high demand, known as peak demand, for electricity. [1] Because they supply power only occasionally, the power supplied commands a much higher price per kilowatt hour than base load power.

  4. Load management - Wikipedia

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    Load management allows utilities to reduce demand for electricity during peak usage times (peak shaving), which can, in turn, reduce costs by eliminating the need for peaking power plants. In addition, some peaking power plants can take more than an hour to bring on-line which makes load management even more critical should a plant go off-line ...

  5. AN/FPS-16 Instrumentation Radar - Wikipedia

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    The FPS-16 radar sits atop Tranquillon Peak overlooking all of Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, including Space Launch Complex-6, and the shoreline. Tranquillon Peak's elevation of 2,126 feet (648 m) is the highest point on Vandenberg AFB. The radar provides data and range safety for missile launches.

  6. Bankside Power Station - Wikipedia

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    Bankside B was designed to be coal-fired but, following a coal and power shortage in early 1947, was redesigned to be oil-fired (the first such power station in Britain). [1] Bunker 'C' oil was delivered by barge from the Shell Haven refinery on the Thames estuary to three large underground tanks to the south of the building.

  7. Orders of magnitude (power) - Wikipedia

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    tech: power producing capacity of the Niagara Power Plant, the first electrical power plant in history 1.4 × 10 8 W tech: average power consumption of a Boeing 747 passenger aircraft 1.9 × 10 8 W tech: peak power output of a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier: 5 × 10 8 W tech: typical power output of a fossil fuel power station: 9 × 10 8 W

  8. Power-to-weight ratio - Wikipedia

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    Peak power output Power-to-weight ratio Example use SI English SI English Wärtsilä RTA96-C 14-cylinder two-stroke diesel engine [3] 80,080 kW 108,920 hp 0.03 kW/kg 0.02 hp/lb Emma Mærsk container ship: ROTAX 900 ACE 60 900 cc, 3-cylinder, 4-stroke, naturally-aspirated marine engine [4] 45 kW 60 hp 0.24 kW/kg 0.15 hp/lb Sea-Doo SPARK 2 UP [5 ...

  9. Utility frequency - Wikipedia

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    The waveform of 230 V and 50 Hz compared with 120 V and 60 Hz. The utility frequency, (power) line frequency (American English) or mains frequency (British English) is the nominal frequency of the oscillations of alternating current (AC) in a wide area synchronous grid transmitted from a power station to the end-user.