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This electric current is generated in a power plant, and then sent out
over a power grid to your homes, and ultimately to your power outlets.
- AC of 60 Hz produced by generator
- Resistance losses are smallest at high voltages and low currents
Where does the motion needed to keep the copper wire moving relative
to the magnetic field come from?
-attains between 50 70% efficiency
- one windmills average energy
output ranges from 11.4 W/m^2
57 W/m^2 depending on how windy
-wind farms tend to generate between
50 and 600 Kw
- California currently produces
of all the wind generated electricity
in the world.
Wind generated
Kilronan Wind Farm In Ireland
-North Dakota with 20 times the wind potential of California has not
erected a single wind turbine
-About 50% of the United States potential for hydroelectric energy has been
tapped. However, further advances are unlikely.
-The Wild and Scenic River Act and the Endangered Species Act have
inhibited development of some sites
-Silt collection in hydroelectric Dam storage volumes over time causes
maintenance issues, as well as environmental concerns
-The loss of free flowing streams and land due to flooding behind the dam
disturbs the life of species: eg Salmon
- Possibility of dam failure
-Solar Power uses the sun energy to either boil water or directly converts
solar energy to electrical energy
-Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion uses temperature differences
between different depths of ocean water to drive a heat engine. Working
fluid is ammonia which is gas at room temperature.
-Biomass Energy: Municipal Solid Waste burning wastes to drive heat
engines
-Geothermal Energy based on naturally occurring heat in the Earth in the
Earth due to radioactive decay
-Tidal Energy uses the gravitational pull of the moon on our oceans to
drive turbines