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No it doesn't have a submerged tailrace. The water that comes out of the turbine comes out into 'clean' air.

Hello, I'm Pim Verwoerd a second year bachelor mechanical engineering student at the TU Eindhoven.

For an engineering project we have to make an energy storage system. We thought of something like a hydro dam. We were having a discussion about the pressure after the turbine in the hydro dam. The water immediately flows into the atmosphere ( so it falls down into a lake ). Can we then safely...