generate electricity‚ and some use nuclear power‚ but there is an increasing use of cleaner renewable sources such as solar‚ wind‚ wave and hydroelectric. Types of power generating plants Electricity can be generated using the kinetic energy of water‚ heat energy of the sun and coal‚ or from the nuclear energy released from the fission of nuclear fuel. Nuclear Power Plants Nuclear power plants work on the chemical process of fission. Nuclear reactors are used to generate electricity. Fission
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Electrical Current An electric current is a flow of electrical charge. When a metal conducts electricity‚ the charge is carried by electrons moving through the metal. Electrons are subatomic particles with a negative electrical charge. When a solution conducts electricity‚ the charge is carried by ions moving through the solution. Ions are atoms or small groups of atoms that have an electrical charge. Some ions have a negative charge and some have a positive charge. Citric Acid Citric acid is
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------------------------------------------------- Electricity sector in India From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia Ramagundam Thermal Power Station‚ Andhra Pradesh Sabarmati Thermal Power Station‚ Gujarat The electricity sector in India had an installed capacity of 223.625 GW as of April 2013‚[1] the world’s fifth largest. Captive power plants generate an additional 34.444 GW. Non Renewable Power Plants constitute 87.55% of the installed capacity and 12.45% of Renewable Capacity.[2] India
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Introduction: Now-a-days electricity has become quite-common in the world. Everybody sees the wonderful work of electricity. The lights on the streets are lit by the electric current. Electric fans work in the court‚ high court and office-rooms. Trains and trams are run by the electric power. So‚ electricity is no longer a strange thing. Discovery of electricity: About six hundred years back the people of Asia Minor and Greece had a very crude idea of electricity. Next‚ the American Scientist
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Lightning - Each bolt can contain up to one billion volts of electricity - Electrical discharge is caused by an imbalance between positive and negative charges in the atmosphere - Colliding particles of rain‚ ice‚ or snow increase this imbalance and often negatively charge the lower reaches of storm clouds - Objects on the ground‚ like steeples‚ trees‚ and the Earth itself‚ become positively charged - A step-like series of negative charges‚ called a stepped leader‚ works
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“IF THERE IS NO ELECTRICITY” To think of life without electricity is almost impossible today. Elec tricity provides all the comforts of life. We find ourselves completely helpless and feel its importance whenever power fails or when the sup ply is irregular. We curse the government for its failure to supply unin terrupted electric supply. In case of no electricity our life would be totally different. We will have to use earthen lamps‚ lantern or candle-light instead of electric bulbs and tubes
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waves of new products and services to offer‚ a discovery that has been the most important source of these vivid ideas‚ has never been given much attention and is abused to its extent. This amazing discovery is what we call Electricity. Electricity is the flow of electrical power or charge. It is both a basic part of nature and one of our most widely used forms of energy. It is actually a secondary energy source‚ also referred to as an energy carrier. That means that we get electricity from the
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Electricity and Magnetism History Electromagnetism Originally electricity and magnetism were thought of as two separate forces. This view changed‚ however‚ with the publication of James Clerk Maxwell’s 1873Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism in which the interactions of positive and negative charges were shown to be regulated by one force. There are four main effects resulting from these interactions‚ all of which have been clearly demonstrated by experiments: 1. Electric charges attract
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Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Wireless electricity (Power) transmission using solar based power satellite technology This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. 2013 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 439 012046 (http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/439/1/012046) View the table of contents for this issue‚ or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 49.145.98.152 This content was downloaded on 12/01/2015
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Electricity generation is the process of creating electricity from other forms of energy. The fundamental principles of electricity generation were discovered during the 1820s and early 1830s by the British scientist Michael Faraday. His basic method is still used today: electricity is generated by the movement of a loop of wire‚ or disc of copper between the poles of a magnet.[1] For electric utilities‚ it is the first process in the delivery of electricity to consumers. The other processes‚ electricity
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