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http://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=cEL7yc8R42k
^ a very good video summary on Hydroelectric power
Basically water flows through the dam and through a turbine. This spins the turbine, which in turn spins a generator. The generator creates electricity by having magents go around copper.
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∙ 13y ago
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∙ 13y agoWell it generates about 2.6 million kilowatts.
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∙ 15y ago4 billion kilowatt-hours per year, enough for 1.5 million people.
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∙ 10y agoThe Hoover Dam creates energy through the method of Hydroelectric Energy Production. Each year the Hoover Dam makes about 4.2 Billion KW/h of electricity.
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Why was the Hoover Dam called the Boulder Dam?
Answer this question…It was originally known as Boulder Dam, but was renamed in 1947 in honor of Herbert Hoover, who as U.S. secretary of commerce and the 31st U.S. president proved instrumental in getting the dam built.
How much would it cost to construct the Hoover Dam today?
$500 per generator after that it's virtually free
Where does hydropower come from?
Dams such as Hoover Dam or the dams of the Niagra River generate hydroelectric power.
When was Hoover Dam built?
Construction of Hoover Dam began on April 20, 1931, the dam was completed on March 1, 1936.
How much space does it take to build a dam?
It can take up to at least five years to build a hydroelectric dam.
How much power dose Hoover Dam supply?
Hoover dam delivers around four billion kilowatt hours of power annually. This is about one seventh of the twenty-one billion kilowatt hours of power generated by the nation's hydroelectric power source, Grand Coulee Dam.
Who gets electricity from Hoover Dam?
The hydroelectric power generated at Hoover Dam is allocated primarily to southern California, and also to the states of Nevada and Arizona. See:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam
Why do you need Hoover Dam?
Hoover dam was built to supply electrical power to Las Vegas .
What area of the country is the main benefactor of electricity generated by the hoover dam?
CA
What area of the country is the main benefactor of the electricity generated by the Hoover Dam?
CA
What states benefit from the Hoover Dam?
that really is a loaded question. shortly after the dam was built, large power companies started selling or trading energy. in theory, the power generated from the hoover dam could be used anywhere, most likely in the US but its not a stretch to say that some would be transfered as far as the east coast or canada/mexico.
Is the Hoover Dam a source of hydro power?
yes
How much power is generated by the Grand Coulee dam?
21 billion KWh per year
Which river is Hoover Dam a massive power plant located on?
Hoover Dam is on the Colorado River. The water backed up behind the dam is called Lake Mead.
How much electricity does the Hoover Dam supply?
It's very difficult to answer questions like this because of the way the US power grid works. Power producing sites put power on the grid, and power consuming sites take power off the grid, and it's not really possible to track exactly what goes where. Think of it this way: the power grid is a big barrel full of water. Las Vegas has a pipe coming out of the barrel, and Hoover Dam has a pipe going into the barrel, but there are many other pipes coming out and going in. Finding out if a particular drop of water flowing through the Las Vegas pipe came from the Hoover Dam pipe would be difficult. The power grid is actually worse than that, because we could theoretically put some dye in the water, but we can't do that with power; an electron is an electron is an electron. That said: Las Vegas actually does not get much of its power from Hoover Dam, since the electric company serving Las Vegas is NV Energy, which owns its own power plants and does not operate the generators at Hoover Dam. NVE's own website states that 70% of their power generation for southern Nevada comes from natural gas fired plants, so at most 30% of Las Vegas' power would come from Hoover Dam (and most likely much less than that). Also, the US Bureau of Reclamation (the agency that operates the generators at the dam) does not list Las Vegas as a recipient of the power generated. They do list the State of Nevada in general (which gets about 23% of the power generated by the dam), but the only specific city in Nevada that's listed is Boulder City, NV.
How much concrete in Hoover Dam?
The Hoover dam weighs 6,600,000 tons. It took 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete to build the dam itself
What is the name of the dam on Colorado river between Arizona and Nevada?
There are six of them on the Colorado river. Glenn Canyon dam, Hoover dam, Davis dam, Parker dam, Palo Verde diversion dam and Imperial dam.
