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2024 Lebanon electronic device attacks. On 17 and 18 September 2024, thousands of handheld pagers and hundreds of walkie-talkies intended for use by Hezbollah exploded simultaneously in two separate events across Lebanon and Syria in an Israeli attack. [8] The attack killed at least 42 people, including at least 12 civilians, and wounded more ...
Lebanon's Red Cross said it deployed 130 ambulances to respond to explosion injuries, with an additional 170 vehicles on standby. The country's civil emergency authority urged citizens to donate ...
Updated September 17, 2024 at 4:38 PM. At least eight people were killed and more than 2,700 injured, many of them Hezbollah fighters, when the handheld pagers they use to communicate exploded ...
A pumped-storage hydroelectricity generally consists of two water reservoirs at different heights, connected with each other. At times of low electrical demand, excess generation capacity is used to pump water into the upper reservoir. When there is higher demand, water is released back into the lower reservoir through a turbine, generating ...
The Tumut-3 Hydroelectric Power Station. The upper Minamiaiki Dam of the Kannagawa Hydropower Plant. Castaic Power Plant. Main pump-generator hall of Vianden Pumped Storage Plant. Upper reservoir for Coo-Trois-Ponts PSPS. Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station. Mingtan Dam. The table below lists currently operational power stations.
Displaced. ~300,000. On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$ 15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. A cargo of 2,750 tonnes of the substance (equivalent to ...
A battery energy storage system (BESS) or battery storage power station is a type of energy storage technology that uses a group of batteries to store electrical energy. Battery storage is the fastest responding dispatchable source of power on electric grids , and it is used to stabilise those grids, as battery storage can transition from ...
Show comments. BEIRUT/CAIRO (Reuters) -U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein will be in Beirut on Monday for talks with Lebanese officials on conditions for a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanese armed group ...