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Where would you locate an hydroelectric plant?
Along rivers or streams, at the foot of hills and mountains with ponds or lakes, and at the mouths of bays and inlets where there are tides. Hydroelectric plants operate on the basis of gravity moving water downward. So the requirement for hydroelectric power is water and a difference in height, altitude or depth. Most Hydroelectric plants are located on rivers and used dams to provide the difference in height. In some cases, hydro plants have been built at the foots of hills or mountains that had lakes on them at higher levels. If the difference in altitude is sufficient, a small flow and a small power plant can produce an impressive amount of power. It is possible to get hydroelectric power from the movement of water without a dam, and this is done in rivers with sufficient current, but where damming the river would be too destructive to the land or things on the land. It is also done in places with tidal flows that are sufficiently energetic. Micro-hydroelectric sites can even be small streams, if the water flow is sufficiently reliable.
What sources of electricity used in Zamboanga city?
by using coal power plant
Why use power interface unit in telecom?
it is a unit in a BTS i.e. base transreciever system..these bts are installed with towers that are used for mobile communication. The piu consists of a power plant and battery bank. power plant has rectifier to convert ac to dc and battery back up is used in case of power failure.
Who invented hydroelectricity?
Hydroelectric power, that is the mating of centuries-old hydraulic power machines, such as waterwheels and turbines, with electric generators was a foregone conclusion once generators became commercially available. Although the first generating station was steam-powered, it must be remembered that steam engines were used at that time primarily as a substitute for water power in locations were water power was not available.Lester Allen Pelton is commonly mentioned as the inventor of hydroelectric power. This is not true. Pelton invented a type of hydraulic turbine that used a free-jet impulse system to turn a wheel; he patented his Pelton turbine in 1880. Pelton wheels were widely used to provide mechanical power for mining operations in the mountainous country of the western US. In 1887, miners connected a generator to a Pelton wheel and began generating electricity, but Pelton himself had nothing to do with this development.Five years earlier, in Appleton, Wisconsin, the Vulcan Street Plant went into operation on September 30, 1882. It generated electricity using the power of water from the Fox River already impounded by a dam at an existing paper mill. The plant was the brainchild of two men: H. J. Rogers, president of the Appleton Paper and Pulp Co. and the Appleton Gas Light Co., and H. E. Jacobs, who was a licensing agent for the Western Edison Light Co. of Chicago. The two men were friends, and it is believed that they developed the idea while on a fishing trip together. The Vulcan Street Plant is considered to be the first hydroelectric generating station in the world.Lester Allan Pelton was an American inventor who created an efficient form of impulse water turbine in 1878 in the goldfields.In 1887 a miner attached Pelton's wheel to a dynamo and produced the first hydroelectric power in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.Just to let everyone know hydroelectric power wasnt created. He just discovered it and found ways to use it.Nikola Tesla developed the first working system at Niagara Falls. The system is still over on the Canadian side with a statue of the man. Quite a work of engineering excellence.
Are electricons used up in a circuit?
No, electrons are not used up in a circuit. The movement of these electrons provides usable power, but the flow of electrons (defined as current) does not terminate at some random location, it continues back to the source (ie, electrons flow in a loop from the power plant, out to your home, back to the power plant). Mechanical and chemical energy are used to start these electrons moving; this is the energy you use when you use electricity.
What happens when hydroelectric power stations are too old to use?
If a hydroelectric power station is shut down and not used the planet itself will rust and the equipment will be rendered useless. And because a hydroelectric plant runs on water, the intake pipes and all the water regions around the plant will develop wild plant, bacteria and fungi.
How often is hydroelectric power used?
Hydroelectric power is used all the time. It has been estimated that hydroelectric power is responsible for up to 20% of the worlds electricity. A large percent of this from China.
What are the differences between a coal power plant and a hydroelectric power plant?
Coal is used in furnaces to heat water in a boiler to superheated (above 100 degrees Celsius) temperatures, and this steam is used to drive a turbine which, in turn, drives an alternator. A hydroelectric plant uses the vertical fall of water to drive a water turbine which drives an alternator.
When was hydro electricity first industrialized?
Hydroelectric power used some distance away from a hydro power plant (Colorado, USA) has been with us since about 1886.
Is hydroelectric power widely used?
true?
How is cruachan hydroelectric power station different to a normal hydroelectric power station?
Cruachan Power Station is a storage hydro-electric power station whereas a Normal Hydroelectric power station is produced and then used, no storage needed.
What is Hydroelectric power?
Moving water can be used to generate electricity in hydroelectric power stations.
Is moving water used to power generators?
Yes that's hydroelectric power.
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.
How water is used in coal generating power?
water is used for hydroelectric power it is not used for burning fossil fuels
Why is the hydroelectric dam used to provide power for homes in Singapore?
Singapore does not use hydroelectric dams to generate electricity.
Is hydroelectric dams used to provide power for homes in Singapore Why?
Singapore does not use hydroelectric dams to generate electricity.
