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Examples of household electrical loads that could be shifted to off-peak hours via an automated or controlled mobile app include charging a plug-in vehicle, running a dishwasher, running a hot water heater, running the refrigerator's defrost cycle and ice-making.
ENGADGET: Ford teams up with Eaton, Whirlpool and SunPower to create MyEnergi Lifestyle, hopes to reduce everyone's CO2 footprint
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New York state is currently insisting that Indian Point switch to closed-cycle cooling, which uses much less water and is safer for fish.
WSJ: Feds: Relatively few fish die if NY nukes continue
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Flood-tide: rising tide, part of the tidal cycle between low water and the next high water.
UNESCO: L O S S A R Y
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Ebb-tide: the falling tide, part of the tidal cycle between high water and the next low water.
UNESCO: L O S S A R Y
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His cycle, loaded with 60-80lb of clothes, tent, stove, biscuits, sardines and water, was sometimes a complication.
ECONOMIST: Ian Hibell