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This week’s nails: LA Colors neon yellow with @kleancolor Starry Meteor glitter on top. Not going to use the yellow again, because it kind of looks like baby poop green? 🤣 #thisweeksnails #mynails #diynails #nailpolish #lacolors #neonyellow #kleancolor #glitter #starrymeteor #green #yellow #thisisnotflattering #cheapasschic #cheapmakeup #drugstorebeauty #girly #moonprismpowermakeup
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On this day, 20 December 1973, Spanish fascist Prime Minister who was hand-picked as Franco’s successor Luis Carrero Blanco was assassinated in Madrid. Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 20 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Blanco the nickname of “Spain’s first astronaut”. His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and was credited by some of helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco’s death.
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Pictured: a cinematic creation of the event https://ift.tt/2rOwulk“spains first astronaut” HAHAHAHAHAHA
Back to Basics: Direct Hydropower
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.
