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Understanding, Designing And Building A Hydroelectric Generator, Nicholas Weare Shenberger
Understanding, Designing And Building A Hydroelectric Generator, Nicholas Weare Shenberger
Senior Projects Spring 2018
When you hear the word hydropower you automatically jump to using water in order to create power or electricity. However, delving deeper and trying to understand the technology involved in it becomes quite a lot more complicated. To try to comprehend some of the knowledge of how to convert the power of water into electricity, I decided to design and build my own hydroelectric generator. I took the time to research and discover more about the process of building a generator and the specific pieces that come together in order to build one specifically powered by water. After my research, …