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How is electrical energy recovered?

Updated: 8/10/2023
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14y ago

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In short, by connecting electricity to a 'load', you are converting it to another type of energy. Some examples: Motor-electrical energy to mechanical energy (with heat byproduct) Lamp-electrical energy to light energy (with heat byproduct) Heater coil-electrical energy to heat energy (with light byproduct) Speaker-electrical energy to sound energy (with heat byproduct) The list goes on. Notice that most changes produce heat, even when they are not the intended target energy. This is because nothing is perfectly efficient, and some energy is lost as heat in the conversion process.

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Energy can not be made or destroyed, just transfered. There are many ways to recover electrical energy from wind, wave, hydro etc

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