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What is the name given to electricity generated by water moving through a turbine?
Hydroelectric energy is created by water powering a turbine.
How do you use hydroelectricity to make electricity?
when water fiows from water resource then potential energy converts into kinetic energy. due to this water rotates to the turbines and conversion of kinetic energy into mechanical takes place . the shaft of turbine is connected to generator and in turbine due to rotation magnetic flux takesplace and electricity is produced.
Which is more useful static or current electricity?
It is current. Because current electricity has moving charges while static electricity has stationary charges.
What is electricity produced by flowing water?
This is called hydroelectric power, or hydro power.
What makes electricity by letting falling water turn turbines and generators?
The moving or falling water travels through a turbine, causing the turbine blades to spin. This in turn, is used to drive a generator (in simple terms, this is a magnet that spins inside a coil of copper wire). The rotating magnetic field produced by the spinning magnet induces an electrical current in the copper wire hence generating electricity. Please see the related links for further information.
Which energy flow uses the flow of moving water to generate electricity?
You question is meaningless but the use of moving water to generate electricity is called 'Hydroelectricity'.
What is turned by moving water to generate electricity?
Turbines
How do you make electricity from moving water?
a waterwheel, connected to a generator
What is the energy of moving water converted to electricity?
It is kinetic energy.
What apparatus are needed to generate hydro-electricity?
Moving water (dams, rivers, tides) and turbines (like an electric motor in reverse) that will produce electricity when the moving water spins them round.
Is running water related to electricity?
In a way it is
Which energy source uses the flow of moving water to generate electricity?
electricity from water is called hydro - or hydroelectric power
When a hydroelectric plant uses moving water to spin a device that generates electricity one form of energy is transformed into another?
Hydroelectric power is turning the kinetic energy of moving water into electricity
How can moving water be used to produce electricity true or false?
true
True or false: energy from moving water can be converted into electricity?
true
How are electric current and electric charge related?
It might be possible to characterize an electric charge as a current -- if that charge is moving. Any moving charge is electricity under the fundamental definition of that term. Electricity is generally thought of as moving electrons, but a more fundamental definition of electricity is any moving charge or group of charges. If your electric charge is moving, it is electric current.
How can the energy from moving water be used to produce electricity?
Water can turn a wheel, which turns an axle connected to an electrical generator which generates electricity by moving magnets so that their magnetic fields pass through wires.
