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Hidraulic Happens :

HOW THIS HAPPENS?

Hydraulic energy is based on the movement produced by water when turning the blades of a turbine, to make it rotate. That movement causes a generator to produce energy.

VIDEO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx_Lxg4hCjc

Parts:

Electricity:

where the electricity passes

Higher Reservoir: Where is the big amount of water.

PARTS OF

A DAM

Transformer:It allows to increase or decrease the voltage of electricity.

Generator:

a rotating electrical machine that transforms the generated motion it forms (mechanical energy) into electrical energy.

Turbine:

set of blades that makes them move through a liquid so that it rotates.

INFO OF CONSTRUCTION

The construction of the first were in Mesopotamia and the Middle East. Dams were used to control water levels, because the climate of Mesopotamia affected the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.

INFO

USE FOR HIDROELECTRICITY

At the end of the 19th century, hydroelectric power was one of the sources to generate electricity. The first hydroelectric power plant was built at Niagara Falls in 1879.

FACTS

It is renewable energy. This is because it does not emit polluting products.

It is the cheapest type of energy.

The oldest and the largest source of energy.

Córdoba, one of the largest power generators in the country of Spain.

ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES

PROS

CONS

-Environmental consequences

-Expensive to build

-Drought potential

-Limited reserves

-Renewable

-Low emissions

-Reliable

-Safe

world hydroelectric power generation

Graphs

number of uses

world hydroelectric resources