Turbogenerators

10/09/16

“How can we use turbines for generating power?”
Turbines are excellent machines for extracting power. However, how can we use this knowledge to further apply it to generate large amounts of electric power? Well, let’s think about it. We know that turbines are able to produce mechanical energy when a fluid passes through their blades. And we also know that we can convert mechanical to electrical energy through the use of electric generators. So what if we hooked up a turbine to an electric generator? With this set-up, we would be able to extract large amounts of electric power. Due to the usefulness of such a contraption, it has become the operating principle behind wind turbines and hydroelectric power plants

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