- Electric generator | Types, Uses Advantages | Britannica
Electric generator, any machine that converts mechanical energy to electricity for transmission and distribution over power lines to domestic, commercial, and industrial customers
- Michael Faraday | Biography, Inventions, Facts | Britannica
The article on electricity in the third edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica particularly fascinated him Using old bottles and lumber, he made a crude electrostatic generator and did simple experiments He also built a weak voltaic pile with which he performed experiments in electrochemistry
- Wind turbine | Renewable Energy, Efficiency Design | Britannica
Wind turbines come in several sizes, with small-scale models used for providing electricity to rural homes or cabins and community -scale models used for providing electricity to a small number of homes within a community
- Wave power | Description, Renewable Energy, Electricity, Process . . .
Wave power is a form of renewable energy in which electricity is generated by harnessing the up-and-down motion of ocean waves Wave power is typically produced by floating turbine platforms
- Wind power | Description, Renewable Energy, Uses, Disadvantages . . .
Modern commercial wind turbines produce electricity by using rotational energy to drive an electrical generator They are made up of one or more blades attached to a rotor and an enclosure called a nacelle that contains a drive train atop a tall tower
- History of technology - Electricity, Innovations, Inventions | Britannica
Electricity does not constitute a prime mover, for however important it may be as a form of energy it has to be derived from a mechanical generator powered by water, steam, or internal combustion
- Hydroelectric power | Definition, Renewable Energy, Advantages . . .
Hydroelectric power is a form of renewable energy in which electricity is produced from generators driven by turbines that convert the potential energy of moving water into mechanical energy
- Thermoelectric power generator | Renewable Energy Source | Britannica
Thermoelectric power generator, any of a class of solid-state devices that either convert heat directly into electricity or transform electrical energy into thermal power for heating or cooling
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