Hydro Power

Hydroelectric energy comes from the movement of water (the prefix "hydro-" means water.) Any transfer of energy from water movement to anything electrical or mechanical is a form of hydroelectric energy. The best examples are dams. A dam blocks moving water and forces it through a confined space, where it can do mechanical work or be converted to electrical work. Another example could be a mill wheel being used to grind corn. Yet another could be an old-fashioned paddle-wheel boat (although that's chemical energy from the burning of coal being turned into mechanical energy turning the wheel that results in the boat's forward motion.) Technically those last two examples are hydromechanical rather than hydroelectric, but you get the picture.

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u smoke it just like any other kind of weed :P hydro is used for many things such as computers, television, heat and many other things that you do on a daily basis. hydro is also used to cook keep you alive and it also helps you in many cases. It is used for many different things that you do.

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when the water is flowing over the the dam with high velocity, it acquires great kinetic energy, when this water is used to turn the turbines, this kinetic energy will be converted into electrical energy. so, when the water flows over the dam, hydroelectricity is produced.

you get it from oceans or the hydroelectic plants will give it

The first industrial use of hydropower to generate electricity occurred in 1880, when 16 brush-arc lamps were powered using a water turbine at the Wolverine Chair Factory in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The first U.S. hydroelectric power plant opened on the Fox River near Appleton, Wisconsin, on September 30, 1882. Until that time, coal was the only fuel used to produce electricity. The early hydroelectric plants were direct current stations built to power arc and incandescent lighting during the period from about 1880 to 1895. Because the source of hydropower is water, hydroelectric power plants must be located on a water source. Therefore, it wasn't until the technology to transmit electricity over long distances was developed that hydropower became widely used. By the early 1900's, hydroelectric power accounted for more than 40 percent of the United States' supply of electricity. The years 1895 through 1915 saw rapid changes occur in hydroelectric design and a wide variety of plant styles built. Hydroelectric plant design became fairly well standardized after World War I with most development in the 1920's and 1930's being related to thermal plants and transmission and distribution.

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a source of running water near their homes. But for those with river-side homes or live-on boats, small water generators (micro-hydro turbines) are the most reliable source of renewable energy available. One relatively small water turbine will produce power non-stop, as long as running water is available, no matter what the weather. We're pleased to introduce a comprehensive line of micro-hydro water turbines, including LVM's AquaGen and Ampair's Aquair UW submersible propeller turbines, Harris Pelton and Stream Engine impulse turbines, and a comprehensive line of small reaction turbines including the LH1000, Nautilus, Neptune, Niade and Power Pal micro-hydro power systems. For people with a good source of year-round running water, one or two water turbines may be all they need to power their homes. However, for those with seasonal, winter-only streams available, a small water generator may be the perfect back up for a solar system's off-peak season. If you think a home water power system may work for you, browse our site for more information, or contact us for help putting together a microhydro system to meet your needs.

The availability of suitable sites for large dams and reservoirs, and in some areas the amount of rainfall

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The water stored in a reservoir has been used to make up for the loss of sea levels. This is water stored to be used in various things, including generation of hydro power.

The device developed to harness the power of moving water is called a water turbine. Water turbines are mechanical devices that convert the energy from flowing or falling water into rotational mechanical energy. This energy can then be used to drive machinery or generate electricity in hydroelectric power plants. Water turbines come in various types such as Pelton, Francis, and Kaplan turbines, each designed for different water flow and head conditions.

The principal way that water is used in electricity production is at hydroelectric power stations. Moving water falls though turbines to spin them. The turning turbine shafts power generators which produce power.

Hydroelectric power plants capture the energy of flowing water. Water from a fast flowing stream is run through a turbine, a thing like a giant fan. The turbine spins because of the push of the water. This turning rotates a generator, which is like a huge magnet. As the magnet turns inside a coil of wire, electricity is made.

Hydroelectric power creates electricity through the spinning of turbines through the gravity of the water. The turbines spin magnets in between 2 other magnets, and the moving magnetic fields create currents in nearby electric wires which are than put thought transformers and sent out to consumers.

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21 countries are using nuclear power plants! due to various decisions!

Most rivers around the world produce water with the capability of supporting hydroelectric power generation. We can only appreciate from the Yellow and Blue rivers in China, to the mighty Colorado in the Western United States, the harnessing of water power is in full swing -- either established, recently built, or planned.

im not sure about hte entire caribbean but in guyana hydroelectric power is not YET being used due to the fact that the area in which the source (amelia falls) is located is away from the population and it wold require alot of money to be spent on post to run across the country. it was in fact being undertaken on Burnam's time but unfortunately was not completed. they were left there to rot.

Once the power plant is built, there is almost no pollution from the actual running of the plant.

Hydroelectric power produces almost no waste.

Hydro has a negative effect of the environment and fundamentally alters river ecosystems, often fragmenting channels and changing river flows. itdegrades water quality, harms fisheries, brings siltation and invasion by weeds, and creats environments suitable for mosquitoes and other disease vectors.

Water Electricity is electricity obtained from hydropower. Most hydroelectric power comes from the potential energy of dammed water driving a water turbine and generator. Less common variations make use of water's kinetic energy or undammed sources such as tidal power. Hydroelectricity is a renewable energy source.

Hydro power is used all over the world since the Industrial revolution in England through to the current major project in China with it'd Three Gorges Dam and hydro electricity generation.

The are thousands of installation with the Aswan Dam in Egypt, the Hoover Dam in the US and the Snowy Mountain Scheme in Australia being prime examples of many installations.

The technology is incredibly well proven and reliable.

There are several risks with hydroelectric energy power. Hydroelectric does use up resources from rivers, so there is a chance of depleting those bodies of water. Also, dams frequently have ceased to work and flooded living areas.