Electricity and Water
Have you ever wondered how electricity is produced from a Dam. The demand for electricity is always high. its never less needed during the day and at night. electricity is so important in a home, for various businesses and other facilities. Electricity is key in the growth and development of an economy. They are various ways of creating electricity, among resource energies, coal and natural gas are used to generate electricity by combustion (thermal power), Uranium by nuclear fission (nuclear power), to utilize their heat for boiling water and rotating steam turbine. Hydroelectricity involves the use of water and a dam. The theory is to build a dam on a large river that has a large drop in elevation, The dam stores lots of water behind it in the reservoir. Near the bottom of the dam wall there is the water intake. Gravity causes it to fall through the penstock inside the dam. At the end of the penstock there is a turbine propeller, which is turned by the moving water. Th...