Interesting! Anyone with moving water, pipes and wires of conductive material can produce electricity. I remember something about magnets though. Conductive material rotating in a magnetic field produces a current in the conductive material. Am I misremembering what I learned in physics class?
Oh for sure. There's a lot more to a generator than what I listed. Magnetics and transient voltages and diodes and resistors and stators and and and. We'd need a lot more than 1200 words to explain a generator. Or years of physics.
But the water and the force to generate and the storage doesn't change.
How's it goin Owasco? Haven't heard from you for a minute. How's the new windows?
Windows?
I like my new/old house, and boy was that price right, but the countryside is so beautiful around here, that now I am itching to move to a really nice house closer to the edge of town, if not out of town. This house is on the densest residential street in the village. It's a very popular street on Halloween, which I did not know until costumed kids were standing a dozen deep at my front door.
The area is much happier and friendlier than the one I moved from. I like that very much. There are no health food stores, so in order to get good food I have to go directly to farms. I like that too. I regularly go on beautiful drives to get to these farms, one of my favorite pastimes.
I sang at an open mic last Wednesday, and will audition for a play tomorrow. I'm slowly rebuilding my social life. I see a lot of opportunities here, whereas my last home was in an area that had come to offer very few opportunities and a hobbled social life, because of excessive covid restrictions.
It's good here. Thanks for asking.
So why do you know so much about hydroelectric power?
What I just read is nothing shy of an article. I saw Autumn trees and felt wind chills, got hungry and made acquaintances just by reading. That was fun.
I'm flattered you even asked, thank you. Power in general, I engineered that stuff 22 years before reaching retirement hours. I recently went into detail about it here if you're interested. 💖
But the only stat worth mentioning, the one that requires no additional info on a resume is nobody ever got hurt on my watch.