Can floods contribute to the strength of hydropower?
This is how hydropower works. Ya must have the patience to read it. A hydroelectric power plant harnesses the energy found in moving or still water and converts it into electricity. Moving water, such as a river or a waterfall, has mechanical energy. ‘Mechanical energy is the energy that is possessed by an object due to its motion or stored energy of position.’ This means that an object has mechanical energy if it’s in motion or has the potential to do work (the movement of matter from one location to another,) based on its position. The energy of motion is called kinetic energy and the stored energy of position is called potential energy. Water has both the ability and the potential to do work. Therefore, water contains mechanical energy (the ability to do work), kinetic energy (in moving water, the energy based on movement), and potential energy (the potential to do work.) The potential and kinetic/mechanical energy in water is harnessed by creating a system to efficiently process th
