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  2. Tipton Catastrophe - Wikipedia

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    A Portland stone memorial to the victims, erected by public subscription in 1924 and refurbished in 2010, stands in section O of Tipton Cemetery. [3] [17] It bears the names of all of the victims, as well as the five survivors. The site of the explosion is marked with a blue plaque, erected by Tipton Civic Society in 2013. [3]

  3. Edge of the World - Wikipedia

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    Edge of the World is an album created by Judas Priest guitarist Glenn Tipton, featuring outtakes from his solo album Baptizm of Fire. The Who bassist John Entwistle (The Ox) and drummer Cozy Powell, who both died in the years following its recording (Powell 1998, Entwistle 2002), were the session players for those sessions, and are given top billing on this release.

  4. Environmental impact of wind power - Wikipedia

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    The Vattenfall utility company study found Hydroelectric, nuclear stations and wind turbines to have far less greenhouse emissions than other sources studied.. A typical study of a wind farm's Life cycle assessment, when not connected to the electric grid, usually results in similar findings as the following 2006 analysis of 3 installations in the US Midwest, where the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ...

  5. List of accidents and incidents involving military aircraft ...

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    Boeing XB-38-VE, 41-2401, powered with Allison V-1710 liquid-cooled engines, crashed near Tipton, California, on its ninth test flight when the number three (starboard inner) engine caught fire. Attempts to extinguish it were unsuccessful, and as the fire spread to the wing, the pilots bailed out after pointing the aircraft to an uninhabited area.

  6. Wind profile power law - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] In places where trees or structures impede the near-surface wind, the use of a constant 1/7 exponent may yield quite erroneous estimates, and the log wind profile is preferred. Even under neutral stability conditions, an exponent of 0.11 is more appropriate over open water (e.g., for offshore wind farms), than 0.143, [ 3 ] which is more ...

  7. Citicorp Center engineering crisis - Wikipedia

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    Worried that a high wind could cause the building to collapse, LeMessurier directed that the building be reinforced. The reinforcements were made stealthily at night while the offices in the building were open for regular operation during the day. The concern was for the integrity of the building structure in high wind conditions.

  8. File:The wind among the reeds.pdf - Wikipedia

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    This file is in PDF format. Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems for document exchange.PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

  9. Renewable energy - Wikipedia

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    From 2011 to 2021, renewable energy grew from 20% to 28% of global electricity supply. Power from the sun and wind accounted for most of this increase, growing from a combined 2% to 10%. Use of fossil energy shrank from 68% to 62%. [7] In 2022, renewables accounted for 30% of global electricity generation and are projected to reach over 42% by ...