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A wind turbine changes what kind of energy into electrical energy?
kinetic (the energy in the moving air)
How do dams help produce hydroelectric energy?
Dams produce electrical energy by utilizing the energy in the water stored in an elevated lake. Outlets in the dam allow water to escape down a pipe, trading potential energy for kinetic energy, ie, as it falls it moves faster. At the bottom of the dam, the fast moving stream of water enters a turbine where the it hits the blades of the turbine and makes it spin rapidly. The spinning turbine is connected to a generator, a rotating machine with magnets that converts the energy of rotation into electrical energy, usually AC. The AC voltage is run into a transformer to convert it to high voltage (higher voltage is better for long distances) and sent on towers to where it is needed.
How do windmills provide electricity?
Wind energy converts kinetic energy that is present in the wind into more useful forms of energy such as mechanical energy or electricity.Windmills that were used to grind grain are an example of early uses of wind energy. Modern uses of wind energy include generation of electricity and pumping water.
Examples of heat energy converted to electrical energy?
Electrical energy will always create heat because there will always be some component of resistance in any circuit - though it is often considered as negligable. Electrons "bump into" atom nuclei in the conductive material, transferring some amount of kinetic energy to them. Temperature is fundamentally a measure of atomic kinetic energy. So as a material's resistance increases, for a set current, the amount of "bumps" increase and so the material will get hotter. In theory; any material can conduct electricity given enough voltage, but materials which we refer to as insulators would need an extremely high voltage and would be destroyed after conducting only a short burst of current. I hope this answers your question.
What are the energy transformations that take place in Hydroelectric Dam Power Plants?
In hydroelectric power moving water turns spins a turbine. A shaft from that turbine sticks into a generator. That produces electricity. In a coal fired power plant coal heats water and steam from the boiling water turns a shaft that sticks into a generator. That makes electric power. Any source of power that can make a large shaft turn can produce electricity. The electricity comes out of the generator on wires. It goes to a power transformer. The transformer turns it into high voltage electricity. That way it can travel over transmission lines without losing energy. It is also called wholesale power. It is like a grocer who buys large boxes of cereal and cuts open the large cardboard boxes and then puts the family size boxes on the shelf to sell. You can not use this high voltage electricity. It is so powerful, it would cook you. It goes to a substation where it goes to another transformer. There is reduced in power to where it is safe to put in wires that run down the streets. Then it goes to another transformer where it becomes safe to put in the wires that go to your home.
What does a wind turbine turn kinetic energy into?
Rotational energy, and then electrical energy.
A wind turbine changes what kind of energy into electrical energy?
kinetic (the energy in the moving air)
How are rivers used to produce energy?
The kinetic energy from the river powers the turbine, which in turn goes onto a generator which converts it into electrical energy.
How does Kinetic Energy turn a turbine?
That's actually quite simple: Kinetic energy is movement energy, so the movement is simply transferred to a turbine.
What energy change takes place in wind turbines?
They turn mechanical energy into electricity. The wind impacts the turbine blades causing them to rotate. The rotating blades turn a generator which produces electricity.
How does nuclear energy turn to electrical energy?
nuclear -> heat -> kinetic ->electrical
What energy transfers takes place when the turbine turn the generator?
kinetic energy is transfered to electric energy
True or false wind is actually a form of energy?
False. Wind itself is not a form of energy. Wind possesses kinetic energy that is converted into electrical energy as the wind is used to turn a turbine, like a windmill.
What is a turbine?
A device used to turn kinetic energy into electricity
What energy uses kinetic energy of air to turn a generator?
it is a electrical energy ____________________________________________ Wind energy
Do the burning of fuels such as coal release electrical energy?
The burning of coal itself does not release electrical energy, coal is burned to drive a turbine, the turbine in turn produces electricity.
Device with blades that uses kinetic energy to turn a generator?
A turbine. They can be driven by wind or water.
