Welcome to the PF.Pranav_Indian said:
its the potential energy stored in the tank...berkeman said:Welcome to the PF.
And where would that extra energy come from that you are extracting along the way in the pipelines...?
Potential energy is only used for long distance slow liquid transfer (like water aqueducts transferring water long distances). Most pipelines are pumped, so you would need to add extra pumping power at the source to give you any excess energy to extract along the way...Pranav_Indian said:
potential energy is not only used for long distance slow fluid transfer, what in the case of a dam.. there the fluid at rest have a potential energy and that one is routed to harnish electricity... but there we get a continuous high velocity jet of stream due to the high water head, but in case of a tank head is low, so we will go for small application devicesberkeman said:
After the dam water has fallen down through the hydroelectric generators, it has lost most its potential energy. The water flow out of hydroelectric dam facilities has very little energy left, and just flows slowly down the river, or is pumped to local water utilities.Pranav_Indian said:
ok sir... thank you for your wordz...berkeman said:After the dam water has fallen down through the hydroelectric generators, it has lost most its potential energy. The water flow out of hyddroelectric dam facilities has very little energy left, and just flows slowly down the river, or is pumped to local water utilities.
There is some energy that can be harvested from tides, and we've had a few threads about that here at the PF. You can find more threads about energy harvesting by doing a PF search.
You can. [ref]Pranav_Indian said:
"small devices"?
