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How does water produce energy?
Water is converted into energy by means of hydropower. This is accomplished through means such as dams, turbines, and other machines.
Does water produce energy?
Water is converted into energy by means of hydropower. This is accomplished through means such as dams, turbines, and other machines.
What turns gravitational potential energy into electrical energy?
Dams convert the GPE of falling water into electrical energy via turbines.
Why is the electricity produced at the bottom of the dams?
because gravitatinal potential energy of water is used to rotate turbines.
Where does hydroelectric get its energy from?
Basically from the sun. The warmth from the sun makes water evaporate, then winds(also caused by the sun) move the moisture about. Then it turns into rain, the rain drains into rivers, the rivers travel into dams, and the dams have turbines in them. As the power of the water turns the turbines, the turbines create electricity.
What is the applications of gravitational potential energy into mechanical energy?
In dams, water is often allowed to fall down onto turbines; here, the mechanical energy is converted into electrical energy.
Three ways of saving electricity?
solar panels wind turbines water turbines (or dams)
How is potential energy used to produce useful energy?
Potential Energy of WATER used to produce Electrical Energy in Hydropower Stations. The potential energy in Water stored at height in Constructed DAMS, moves Turbines when Water FLOWS through them. Turbines then rotates Generators and Produce Electrical Energy widely used by Human Endeavours (Domestic & Industrial Purposes).
Do hydroelectric dams use the movement of water to turn turbines?
Yes they do.
Do the animals that live around dams and powerhouses effect the water turbines?
Yes
How is electricity produced without solar energy?
There are many other ways to produce eletricity without solar energy, you have other renewables sources which include wind (wind farms) and water (turbines in water) some dams have water turbines to produce energy. The rest of our eletricity is produce by burning fossil fuels, there is also nuclear power as well.
Why is solar energy the ultimate source of energy in a hydroelectric plant?
The sun lifts the water from the oceans to form the clouds that dump the rains that eventually run into the dams that drive the turbines to produce the electrcity.
