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Tower Of Light
The Tower of Light () is a former transmission tower in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The tower was originally used by Taipower as high voltage transmission tower. With the construction of underground power cable, the tower was on the brink of being scrapped. The Kaohsiung City Government then actively persuaded Taipower to retain one tower for commemorative purpose. After successfully lobbying for a budget of NT$40 million, ecological concepts were incorporated into the design to use solar power to illuminate the tower. Architecture The tower also features a display of various sizes of insulators and a small climbing wall at its side. Transportation The tower is accessible within walking distance west of Houyi Station of Kaohsiung MRT. See also * List of tourist attractions in Taiwan * Electricity sector in Taiwan The electricity sector in Taiwan ranges from generation, transmission, distribution and sales of electricity, covering Taiwan island and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaohsiung City Government
The Kaohsiung City Government is the municipal government of Kaohsiung. It was formed after the merger of Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City in December 2010. Its chief administrator is the directly elected Mayor of Kaohsiung. History In 1924, was upgraded to city status, and the Takao City Office was established in modern-day Gushan District, Gushan by the Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese government which reported directly to Takao Prefecture. The city hall was located at the modern-day temple. The second city hall was built in 1938 at modern-day Zhongzheng 4th Road, Yancheng District, Kaohsiung, Yancheng District and commissioned on 16 September 1939. After the History of Taiwan since 1945, handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China (1912–1949), Republic of China in 1945, the city was renamed Kaohsiung City Government. A fast-growing population and rapid industrial and commercial development caused the expansion of the city government as well. In 199 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Climbing Wall
A climbing wall is an artificially constructed wall with grips for hands and feet, usually used for indoor climbing, but sometimes located outdoors. Some are brick or wooden constructions, but on most modern walls, the material most often used is a thick multiplex board with holes drilled into it. Recently, manufactured steel and aluminum have also been used. The wall may have places to attach belay ropes, but may also be used to practice lead climbing or bouldering. Each hole contains a specially formed t-nut to allow modular climbing holds to be screwed onto the wall. With manufactured steel or aluminum walls, an engineered industrial fastener is used to secure climbing holds. The face of the multiplex board climbing surface is covered with textured products including concrete and paint or polyurethane loaded with sand. In addition to the textured surface and hand holds, the wall may contain surface structures such as indentions (incuts) and protrusions (bulges), or take th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pylons
Pylon may refer to: Structures and boundaries * Pylon (architecture), the gateway to the inner part of an Ancient Egyptian temple or Christian cathedral * Pylon, a support tower structure for suspension bridges or highways * Pylon, an orange marker designating a corner of an American football end zone * Aircraft pylon, an external mount for equipment such as engines and weapons * Electricity pylon, a steel lattice tower used to support an overhead power line * Traffic pylon, a cone-shaped marker that is placed on roads or footpaths to temporarily redirect traffic * Traction current pylon Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Pylon'' (album), a 2015 album by Killing Joke * Pylon (band), a rock band from Athens, Georgia, US * ''Pylon'' (novel), a 1935 novel by William Faulkner ** ''Pylon'' (film) or ''The Tarnished Angels'', a 1957 movie based on the novel * Pylon (''StarCraft''), a structure used by the Protoss race in the StarCraft universe Other uses * Pylon turn, a flight ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electric Power Infrastructure In Taiwan
Electricity is the set of physical phenomena associated with the presence and motion of matter that has a property of electric charge. Electricity is related to magnetism, both being part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism, as described by Maxwell's equations. Various common phenomena are related to electricity, including lightning, static electricity, electric heating, electric discharges and many others. The presence of an electric charge, which can be either positive or negative, produces an electric field. The movement of electric charges is an electric current and produces a magnetic field. When a charge is placed in a location with a non-zero electric field, a force will act on it. The magnitude of this force is given by Coulomb's law. If the charge moves, the electric field would be doing work on the electric charge. Thus we can speak of electric potential at a certain point in space, which is equal to the work done by an external agent in carrying a unit of positiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buildings And Structures In Kaohsiung
A building, or edifice, is an enclosed structure with a roof and walls standing more or less permanently in one place, such as a house or factory (although there's also portable buildings). Buildings come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and functions, and have been adapted throughout history for a wide number of factors, from building materials available, to weather conditions, land prices, ground conditions, specific uses, prestige, and aesthetic reasons. To better understand the term ''building'' compare the list of nonbuilding structures. Buildings serve several societal needs – primarily as shelter from weather, security, living space, privacy, to store belongings, and to comfortably live and work. A building as a shelter represents a physical division of the human habitat (a place of comfort and safety) and the ''outside'' (a place that at times may be harsh and harmful). Ever since the first cave paintings, buildings have also become objects or canvasses of much artistic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electricity Sector In Taiwan
The electricity sector in Taiwan ranges from generation, transmission, distribution and sales of electricity, covering Taiwan island and its offshore islands. Regulator Electricity sector in Taiwan is regulated by its state-owned electric power utility company Taiwan Power Company (Taipower), established on 1 May 1946. Independent power producers After the liberalization of Taiwan electricity market in January 1995, there are total of 9 independent power producers in Taiwan up to date, which are: * Ever Power IPP Co., Ltd. * Ho-Ping Power Company * Hsin Tao Power Corporation * Mai-Liao Power Corporation * Star Energy Power Corporation * Sun Ba Power Corporation * Chiahui Power Corporation * Kuo Kuang Power Corporation * Hsing Yuan Power Corporation (Star Buck Power Corporation) Generation Installed capacity At the end of 2016, the total installed capacity of electricity in Taiwan was 49.06 GW, which came from coal-based thermal (34.73%), gas-based thermal (32.3 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Tourist Attractions In Taiwan
Popular tourist attractions in Taiwan include the following: Attractions Historical buildings * Beihai Tunnel, Beigan () * Beihai Tunnel, Nangan () * Daxi Wude Hall () * Eternal Golden Castle * First Guesthouse * Fongyi Tutorial Academy * Former British Consulate at Takao * Former Japanese Navy Fongshan Communication Center * Former Tainan Weather Observatory * Fort Provintia * Fort Santo Domingo * Fort Zeelandia * Fuxing Barn * Great South Gate * Gulongtou Zhenwei Residence * Hobe Fort * Jhen Wen Academy * Kaohsiung Grand Hotel * Keelung Fort Commander's Official Residence * Lee Teng-fan's Ancient Residence * Lin Family Mansion and Garden * Meinong East Gate Tower * Moving Castle * Niumatou Site * North Gate of Xiong Town * Presidential Office Building * Qihou Fort * Qing Dynasty Taiwan Provincial Administration Hall * Shihlin Paper Mill * Taipei Guest House * Tianma Tea House * Walls of Taipei * Wist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaohsiung Rapid Transit
Kaohsiung Metro () is a rapid transit and light rail system covering the metropolitan area of Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Its rapid transit network is known as Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit or Kaohsiung MRT. Construction of the MRT started in October 2001. The MRT opened in 2008 and the Circular light rail in 2015. Kaohsiung Metro is operated by the Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation (KRTC; ) under a BOT contract the company signed with the Kaohsiung City Government. Two Kaohsiung Metro stations, and , were ranked among the top 50 most beautiful subway systems in the world by Metrobits.org in 2011. In 2012, the two stations respectively are ranked as the 2nd and the 4th among the top 15 most beautiful subway stops in the world by BootsnAll. The system uses romanizations derived from Tongyong Pinyin. History The Kaohsiung City Government undertook a feasibility study for constructing a rapid transit system in Kaohsiung in 1987. After finding favorable results, the city government bega ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Houyi Metro Station
Houyi is a station on the Red line of Kaohsiung MRT in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The character 驛 (Chinese:yì, Japanese: えき, eki) means "station" in Japanese; the station name literally means "(Kaohsiung) rear station". Station overview The station is a two-level, underground station with an island platform and four exits. It is 193 metres long and is located at the intersection of Bo-ai 1st Rd. and Chahaer St. Around the station * Kaohsiung Medical University * Sanmin Park * Tower of Light The Tower of Light () is a former transmission tower in Sanmin District, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. History The tower was originally used by Taipower as high voltage transmission tower. With the construction of underground power cable, the tower was ... References External linksKRTC Houyi Station Kaohsiung Metro Red line stations Railway stations in Taiwan opened in 2008 {{Taiwan-metro-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Insulator (electricity)
An electrical insulator is a material in which electric current does not flow freely. The atoms of the insulator have tightly bound electrons which cannot readily move. Other materials—semiconductors and conductors—conduct electric current more easily. The property that distinguishes an insulator is its resistivity; insulators have higher resistivity than semiconductors or conductors. The most common examples are non-metals. A perfect insulator does not exist because even insulators contain small numbers of mobile charges ( charge carriers) which can carry current. In addition, all insulators become electrically conductive when a sufficiently large voltage is applied that the electric field tears electrons away from the atoms. This is known as the breakdown voltage of an insulator. Some materials such as glass, paper and PTFE, which have high resistivity, are very good electrical insulators. A much larger class of materials, even though they may have lower bulk resistivity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transmission Tower
A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon in British English and as a hydro tower in Canadian English, is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. In electrical grids, they are generally used to carry high-voltage transmission lines that transport bulk electric power from generating stations to electrical substations; utility poles are used to support lower-voltage subtransmission and distribution lines that transport power from substations to electric customers. They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes. Typical height ranges from , though the tallest are the towers of a span between the islands Jintang and Cezi in China's Zhejiang province. The longest span of any hydroelectric crossing ever built belongs to Ameralik Span, the powerline crossing of Ameralik fjord with a length of . In addition to steel, other materials may be used, including concrete and wood. There are four major categ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solar Power
Solar power is the conversion of energy from sunlight into electricity, either directly using photovoltaics (PV) or indirectly using concentrated solar power. Photovoltaic cells convert light into an electric current using the photovoltaic effect. Concentrated solar power systems use lenses or mirrors and solar tracking systems to focus a large area of sunlight to a hot spot, often to drive a steam turbine. Photovoltaics were initially solely used as a source of electricity for small and medium-sized applications, from the calculator powered by a single solar cell to remote homes powered by an off-grid rooftop PV system. Commercial concentrated solar power plants were first developed in the 1980s. Since then, as the cost of solar electricity has fallen, grid-connected solar PV systems have grown more or less exponentially. Millions of installations and gigawatt-scale photovoltaic power stations continue to be built, with half of new generation capacity being solar in 2021. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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