Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. hydroelectric power
Wikipedia
Hydropower or water power (from the , "water" ) is power derived from the energy of falling water or fast running water, which may be harnessed for useful purposes. Since ancient times, hydropower from many kinds of watermills has been used as a renewable energy source for irrigation and the operation of various mechanical devices, such as gristmills, sawmills, textile mills, trip hammers, dock cranes, domestic lifts, and ore mills. A trompe, which produces compressed air from falling water, is sometimes used to power other machinery at a distance.
In the late 19th century, hydropower became a source for generating electricity. Cragside in Northumberland was the first house powered by hydroelectricity in 1878 and the first commercial hydroelectric power plant was built at Niagara Falls in 1879. In 1881, street lamps in the city of Niagara Falls were powered by hydropower.
Since the early 20th century, the term has been used almost exclusively in conjunction with the modern development of hydroelectric power. International institutions such as the World Bank view hydropower as a means for economic development without adding substantial amounts of carbon to the atmosphere, but dams can have significant negative social and environmental impacts.
Usage examples of "hydropower".
But the hydropower corporation that had bought the rights from BiMela claimed fraud.
A company that had disbanded in the years it took the hydropower corporation to realize it had bought the rights to a nonexistent stream.
Figure a cost on taking one of the new hydropower scouts out there at the next conjunction.
Over the past generation as geothermal steam and then hydropower supplemented coal, it had also become a major manufacturing center.
Instead of the fission plants the other Big15 used, Heather went in for hydropower on a colossal scale, damming two-thirds of the watercourses on the Sybraska continent where Rialto was situated.
Legion engineers, with your help, are going to construct a hydropower plant at the head of the lake.
He not only refused to resume work on the hydropower construction, he ordered all technicians and marines to remain at NEd.
Valley rollout, enabling them to transport the heavy equipment for the hydropower project.
They had quickly harnessed the hydropower to run their machines and even tapped the thermal flow beneath for added resources.
Existence of large river and introduction of hydropower responsible for growth of Atlan.