Is hydropower potential or kinetic

Answer 1

If you're careful, you'll realize that you always hear of kinetic or potential "energy",

but not "power".

Potential 'energy' resides in an object or a chemical compound, waiting to be

released and used. Kinetic 'energy' resides in a moving object on account of its

motion. Neither of these situations involves 'power'. Power is the rate at which

energy is moved, used, or converted from one form to another. If potential energy

is removed from a physical or chemical bucket where it's been stored, or some of

the kinetic energy of a moving object is robbed somehow, then the rate at which

the energy goes somewhere else is power.

We go to places where water has a lot of potential energy because of its height,

and where the potential energy is about to become kinetic energy as the water

pours over the edge and begins to fall. Then we stick something into the falling

water that can rob some of that kinetic energy, and we use it to run an electric

generator. The rate at which we're able to divert kinetic energy from the falling

water is the hydro power we get.

Answer 2

The water built up behind a hydroelectric damn is potential energy. When the gates are opened and the water is flowing through the turbines then the energy is said to be kinetic.

Answer 3

neither

Answer 4

kinetic