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The Sun's heat energy evaporates the oceans causing water vapour eventually to condense and fall as rain into mountain lakes.
The water in the high lakes has potential energy because it's high up, and it can be run down a chute so that it gathers speed and hits a set of turbine blades to drive a generator. That is a hydro power plant.
Wiki User
∙ 9y ago
Wiki User
∙ 9y agoThe potential energy converts into kinetic and then electric energy.It is used to produce power.
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Is fossil fuel used to produce hydroelectric power?
No, hydroelectric power is produced from the movement of water spinning a turbine. Fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) produce energy by burning.
Can gravity be used as a source of energy?
Absolutely. At hydroelectric stations, for example, the power of gravity is harnessed to produce electricity.
How is water tranformed into energy?
Water is used to produce energy by letting it flow. This form of energy is called hydroelectric power and is considered non-pollutant.
What is a draw back for hydroelectric energy?
Hydroelectric power plants generate very little electric current for the cost of building, using, and maintaining the equipment used to produce it.
What types of energy are used at home?
Hydroelectric power (from a dam), nuclear energy, solar power and wind power generate electricity. Natural gas is used for heating. Solar (the sun) can produce heat and electricity.
What type of energy use at home?
Hydroelectric power (from a dam), nuclear energy, solar power and wind power generate electricity. Natural gas is used for heating. Solar (the sun) can produce heat and electricity.
Hydroelectric energy not be used?
this question does not make much sence but yes hydroecectric power is used lots in many different countries. Infact the world get 19% of its energy from hydroelectric power
What is Hydroelectric power?
Moving water can be used to generate electricity in hydroelectric power stations.
Which renewable energy is most widely used today?
hydroelectric power
What are the alternative sources used to provide energy?
solar power , wind power , nuclear power , hydroelectric , tidal power , biomass energy .
Does hydroelectric power produce pollution?
No. It relies totally on the potential energy of a raised body of water. You could argue that the turbines and generators used polluting energy to produce them, or the building of the power house and dams. Once set up, there is no futher pollution caused in generating electricity.
How is hydroelectric energy be used in homes and businesses?
Whether the electricity is generated by conventional power stations, or hydroelectric power generation, the electricity used in homes and businesses will still be the same, and used the same.
