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• Battery
  ...careful. Keep soaking and rinsing the plates off periodically in distilled water until the plates are clean and the foaming has stopped. Now, after a final distilled water rinse, you can put the plate/interconnect assembly back into the battery ca
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• Urban retreat
  ...h and take all of the food stuff that you can load up including the cokes, water, cookies and chips out front. ''do not forget'' the paper towels, napkins water storage will be a priority.
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• Fallout shelter
  ...zerland, most residential shelters are no longer stocked with the food and water required for prolonged habitation and a large number have been converted by ...shielding can be blocked using water cans, such as bottles of water. While water only has a density which is one tenth that of lead, it is still able to abs
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• 1983 Beirut barracks bombing
  ...t up its local headquarters. The truck had been substituted for a hijacked water delivery truck. The truck turned onto an access road leading to the Marines ...Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority|author=Oded Lowenheim|year=2006|publisher=University of Michigan
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• USS Willis (DE-395)
  ...Wake Island to Hawaii, the carrier sent up a flight of SBD's to scout the water ahead. Willis took off in one of these bombers for what was intended to be ...combat operations-because a week later, Japan-reeling under the unexpected power of a pair of atomic bombs -capitulated. World War II was over.
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• USS Bering Strait (AVP-34)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...ircraft to safety, or directed ships to the assistance of survivors in the water.
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• USS Wachapreague (AGP-8)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...ile underway at sea, and successfully completed the voyage under their own power. Slowing to 9 [[Knot (speed)|knots]], ''Wachapreague'' fueled two torpedo b
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• USS Yakutat (AVP-32)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...there, tending seaplanes, largely anchored but occasionally moving to open water to be free to maneuver when typhoons swirled by. On one occasion, while ret
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• USCGC Absecon (WAVP-374)
  |Ship power=6,080 [[horsepower]] (4.54 MW) ...n Bermuda and the Azores after he had fallen overboard and remained in the water for 17 hours.
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• USS Unimak (AVP-31)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...ubber [[life raft]]s and the wreckage of the crashed blimp floating on the water. At 15:58 hours, ''Unimak'' took on board nine survivors and sank the unsal
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• USS Barataria (AVP-33)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...ARBs) had been assigned to ''Barataria'', but one of these began taking on water and had to be abandoned and sunk on 8 January 1945. When several ''[[kamika
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• USS Willoughby (AGP-9)
  |Ship power=6,000 [[horsepower]] (4.48 [[megawatt]]s) ...escribed as "the largest and longest mass movement of PT's under their own power during the war"<ref>This quote, from the ''Dictionary of American Naval Fig
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• Barnegat class seaplane tender
  |Ship power=6,000 to 6,080 [[horsepower]] (4.48 to 4.54 MW) ...named after [[island]]s, but the vast majority were named after bodies of water, mostly [[bay]]s and [[inlet]]s, around the [[United States]] and the then-
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• Elsen Karstad's Charcoal Making Wood Gas Cooking Stove
  ...l to 20% charcoal and boil off almost (not quite equal) the same amount of water as the weight of fuel. FOM ranges from .85 to .95. Burn time is typically b Turndown (min-max power) is good and quick- maybe 4 out of 5 when compared with gas cooking.
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• Arc Welding
  '''Arc welding''' uses a [[welding power supply]] to create an electric arc between an electrode and the base materi ==Power supplies==
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• Wood Gas
  ...]) tars and particles. The removal of tar is often accomplished by using a water [[scrubber]]. Running wood gas in an unmodified gasoline-burning internal c ...(Often under the standard idle per-injection volume). Wood can be used to power cars with ordinary [[internal combustion engine]]s if a [[Wood gas generato
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• Wood gas generator
  ...onary motive power.In 1873, Thaddeus S. C. Lowe developed and patented the water gas process by which large amounts of hydrogen gas could be generated for r ...charcoal produces a cleaner gas without the tarry volatiles and excessive water content of wood.
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• The Colony (TV series)
  |Title = Power Struggle ...er, the volunteers were kept awake for thirty hours with almost no food or water.
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• AK-630
  ...cluster of the AK-630). Internally, the AK-306 (A-219) used electricity to power the automatics, instead of using the exhaust. This version also lacked rad
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• AK-230
  The weapon consists of two stabilized NN-30 30 mm water-cooled four chamber revolver cannons, which are mounted inside a riveted st * '''AK-230''' ''A type'' - For ships with 220 V [[Direct current|DC]] power systems.
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