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  2. Combustion tap-off cycle - Wikipedia

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    The cycle is comparable to a gas-generator cycle engine with turbines driven by main combustion chamber exhaust rather than a separate gas generator or preburner. [1] The J-2S rocket engine, a cancelled engine developed by NASA, used the combustion tap-off cycle and was first successfully tested in 1969. [2] By 2013, Blue Origin, with their New ...

  3. General Atomics MQ-1 Predator - Wikipedia

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    The Predator system was initially designated the RQ-1 Predator. The "R" is the United States Department of Defense designation for reconnaissance and the "Q" refers to an unmanned aircraft system. [12] The "1" describes it as being the first of a series of aircraft systems built for unmanned reconnaissance.

  4. Power outage - Wikipedia

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    Power outages are categorized into three different phenomena, relating to the duration and effect of the outage: A transient fault is a loss of power typically caused by a fault on a power line, e.g. a short circuit or flashover. Power is automatically restored once the fault is cleared. A brownout is a drop in voltage in an electrical power ...

  5. Gas-generator cycle - Wikipedia

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    The gas-generator cycle, also called open cycle, is one of the most commonly used power cycles in bipropellant liquid rocket engines. Propellant is burned in a gas generator (or "preburner") and the resulting hot gas is used to power the propellant pumps before being exhausted overboard and lost.

  6. Northeast blackout of 2003 - Wikipedia

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    Suddenly bereft of demand, generating stations go offline, creating a huge power deficit. In seconds, power surges in from the east, overloading east-coast power plants whose generators go offline as a protective measure, and the blackout is on. 4:10:37 p.m. The eastern and western Michigan power grids disconnect from each other.

  7. Rolling blackout - Wikipedia

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    A room during load shedding at night in West Bengal, India. A rolling blackout, also referred to as rota or rotational load shedding, rota disconnection, feeder rotation, or a rotating outage, is an intentionally engineered electrical power shutdown in which electricity delivery is stopped for non-overlapping periods of time over different parts of the distribution region.

  8. Idaho Power ready to shut off service in high-risk areas if ...

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    Under the new Public Safety Power Shutoff program, the utility is prepared to shut down power in nine geographic areas with high wildfire risk if it detects extreme weather and fire conditions.

  9. 2019 California power shutoffs - Wikipedia

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    The 2019 California power shutoffs, known as public safety power shutoff (PSPS) events, were massive preemptive power shutoffs that occurred in approximately 30 counties in Northern California and several areas in Southern California from October 9 to November 1, 2019, and on November 20, 2019, by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas ...