Advanced Materials and Devices for Hydropower and Ocean …
Hydropower, or hydroelectric power, is a mature and fairly simple technology (IEA-ETSAP and IRENA 2015): the potential energy of a water source (characterized by its head and mass flow rate) is converted into kinetic energy that spins a turbine driving an electricity generator, as shown in Fig. 7.1.The kinetic energy of falling water was used for grinding wheat …