On this day, 25 January 1995, Manchester United footballing legend Eric Cantona kung fu kicked a fascist football hooligan, Matthew Simmons, during a match against Crystal Palace.
Simmons, who attended far-right National Front and British National Party rallies and has a raft of violent convictions including attacking a football coach who called him “Nazi scum”, allegedly heckled Cantona as a “foreigner”.
Cantona’s maternal grandfather was from Barcelona, and fought against the forces of fascist General Franco during the Spanish civil war, before being forced to flee to France after the nationalist victory.
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In a modern hydropower installation, a water turbine converts the energy
in the moving water into rotational energy at its shaft, which is then
converted into electrical energy by the generator that is coupled to the
turbine. Next, the electrical energy is converted back into rotational
energy by the electric motor of the machine that is being powered. Every
energy conversion introduces energy loss.
In an old fashioned hydropower installation, there was
only one conversion of energy; A water wheel converted the energy
inherent to the water source into rotational energy at its shaft. The
same shaft also moved the machinery, so that the only source of
significant energy loss occurred in the water wheel itself.
Some small direct hydro powered systems in South America present a
strong case for combining the use of modern materials with old fashioned
methods of water power mechanization. The higher efficiency of this approach means that less water is needed
to produce a given amount of energy. This lowers the cost of hydropower
and enables power to be produced by the use of very small streams.
