Hydropower

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Hydropower

• By Brett K., Nelson F.,
• and Alex L.

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• What is your renewable resource?
• Our renewable resource is hydropower.
• What is hydropower?
• Water flows through a pipe,
• then pushes and turns a
• blade in a turbine to spin a
• generator to produce
• electricity.

This is a diagram of a dam showing how to
generate hydropower
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• What trends do they use in conservation in a
  chosen area?
• In Wisconsin they use dams (a structure that
  holds the water back so they can use it to make
  the power)

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• What are scientists experimenting within this
  field?
• One thing they are doing is they are
  experimenting with tidal power which would
  harness the strong currents that push and pull
  the oceans tide so we can use it for even more
  hydropower.

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• How can people apply these ideas for energy
  conservation?
• People can ask their government to build a near
  by dam in a river to power houses. This will
  allow you switch to hydropower in your home.

Generators in the Hoover Dam
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• Predict how these energy needs will be affected
  in the future?
• As oil prices go up people will use hydropower.
  It does not cost a lot for maintenance or
  operation and uses no fuel. It has 50 less cost
  than nuclear and fossil fuels and 25 less than
  natural gas.

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Citing

• http//www.wvic.com/hydro-works.htm

http//www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/re
newable/water.html
Credits Nelson Idea Man Brett Typist Alex
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