Sentences with phrase «hydroelectric generator»

The designers, Hierve, say this concept uses the same technique as a conventional hydroelectric generator, but on a much smaller scale.

If multiple Oyster units are deployed in an array, they would be configured to pump into a single onshore hydroelectric generator.

The potential energy of water in an elevated lake that is rushing down a river does not contain «heat» per se, but, if we dam the river and divert the water pressure to run a hydroelectric generator, we can transform the river energy into electrical energy and then use that to power an electric heater.

Coincidentally, the electricity at the Ford plant comes from its own hydroelectric generator on the Mississippi.

They won a $ 10,000 grant from Massachusetts Institute of Technology to develop the «Wildcat Water Purifier,» a micro-scale hydroelectric generator to purify surface water in remote areas.

Goupitan, the largest hydroelectric generator in Guizhou province, reportedly produced only 10 percent of its normal output per day, due to shrinking water flows.

Cheap power often means dirty power, and in China, miners draw on low - cost coal and hydroelectric generators.

About Water Power Group Water Power Group (www.waterpowergroup.com) is an Ontario - based private power producer working through joint ventures or cooperatives with local communities and First Nations to develop small, run - of - the river hydroelectric generators.

The U.S. needs a new transmission backbone that crisscrosses the country, knitting together many large wind farms, solar - energy fields, geothermal pools, hydroelectric generators and other alternative sources.

In others, tiny hydroelectric generators can do the job.

The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is proposing a rate increase due to extreme drought having reduced their ability to ramp up hydroelectric generators in time for customers to turn on the bright kitchen lights and cook dinner - after 4:00 PM.

Indeed, we attach gears and axles to these natural heat engines and make them work for us wherever we use hydroelectric generators or windmills.

The size of the reservoir created by a hydroelectric project can vary widely, depending largely on the size of the hydroelectric generators and the topography of the land.

Some generators are designed to increase and decrease energy output as needed − these include natural gas facilities and hydroelectric generators with reservoirs for storage.

Hydroelectric generators show both seasonal and annual variations reflecting changing levels of precipitation, river flow, and snowmelt.

Quincy, Wash., for instance, is the site of hydroelectric generators that supply relatively cheap power to end - users.

Not exact matches

And into the generator gallery of a hydroelectric plant: «The noises are all low notes — hums, buzzes, groanings, rhythmic vibrations that you feel rather than hear.»

The above chart of American Electric Power (AEP), an Ohio - based electricity generator and distributer that runs the gamut from coal to hydroelectric, nuclear, solar, and wind sources, might explain why traders sometimes bypass utilities.

The size of hydroelectric power generators also varies; in fact, the largest plant in the United States is the hydroelectric plant at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, with a capacity of 7,079 MW.

The current turbine generator has shown in tests to be 40 % more efficient than hydroelectric turbines currently in use.

Hydro Plant Schematic Most hydroelectric power comes from the potential energy of dammed water driving a water turbine and generator.

To follow the variable demand the power producers use a variety of «building blocks» from steady running constant load units (Nuclear, Hydroelectric) to slow load - following power plants (Gas & Coal boilers) to rapid start high demand units (Combined Cycle Gas Units) to peaking units (Gas & Diesel generators).

Southern Company is the largest US player in carbon sequestration, is behind the 2nd largest solar power generation plant in the US (and several lesser ones), is the only company currently building new nuclear power plants in the US, has the US's largest biomass power generation plant, is only the 7th largest hydroelectric power generator in the US but is trying to expand, and is invested heavily in wind power research.

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