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Gruissan. 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. Gruissan (French pronunciation: [ɡʁɥisɑ̃] ⓘ; Occitan: Grussan) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. The historian Émile Raunié (1854–1911) was born in Gruissan.
Tour Barberousse. The Tour Barberousse (in English, Redbeard Tower) is in the coastal village of Gruissan in the Aude département of France. [ 1 ] The tower is all that remains of a castle built at the end of the 10th century to observe the approaches to the harbour at Narbonne and to guard against seaborne invasions of the city.
Beaufort scale. A ship in a force 12 (" hurricane -force") storm at sea, the highest rated on the Beaufort scale. The Beaufort scale / ˈboʊfərt / is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
Floating wind turbine. The world's first full-scale floating wind turbine, the 2.3 MW Hywind, being assembled in the Åmøy Fjord near Stavanger, Norway in 2009, before deployment in the North Sea. A floating wind turbine is an offshore wind turbine mounted on a floating structure that allows the turbine to generate electricity in water depths ...
Decentralized finance (often stylized as DeFi) offers financial instruments and operations through smart contracts on a programmable permissionless blockchain, thus minimizing the reliance on intermediaries such as brokerages, exchanges, or banks. [1] DeFi platforms allow people to lend or borrow funds from others, speculate on price movements ...
Uniswap is a decentralized cryptocurrency exchange that uses a set of smart contracts to create liquidity pools for the execution of trades. It is an open source project and falls into the category of a DeFi product (Decentralized finance) because it uses smart contracts to facilitate trades instead of a centralized exchange.
Greater Gabbard is a 504 MW wind farm, built on sandbanks 23 kilometres (14 mi) off the coast of Suffolk in England at a cost of £1.5 billion. It was completed on 7 September 2012 with all of the Siemens SWT3.6–107 turbines connected. [2] Developed as a joint venture between Airtricity and Fluor, it is now jointly owned by SSE Renewables and ...
August 28, 2024 at 5:08 PM. A one-two punch of near-record-breaking heat and intense thunderstorms have hit Milwaukee-area residents this week but forecasters say a respite could arrive by the ...