If I built a hydropower turbine designed to generate electricity from 10000 Liters of water, how much electricity would it likely produce?
In: Physics
Depends how far the water falls.
Hydropower converts potential energy to electricity. Potential energy is mass X force of gravity X height. Hydropower is around 90% efficient so we multiply by 90/100.
10,000 litres of water weighs 10,000 kg So for each metre it falls you’ll produce 10,000*9.8*.9 joules.
So that’s 88.2 kilojoules or 0.0245kwh. If you take it to the top of a 100m hill, you’ll get 2.45kwh.
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