Mitigation plan for Energy Conversion



Abstract

In the global perspective the pollution and climatic change has significantly occurred. It has become crucial for the strategist and other weather forecasting department has identified that energy consumption and generation has one of the worst affect on ecology and environment. The research paper suggests a mitigation plan for the energy conversion. The plan has comprehensive findings and aspects that focuses the Hydroelectric Power. The plan has benefits and advantages for economy and environment. To overcome energy crises and traditional conversion of energy that affects environment researchers has to come up with the alternatives.

Table of Contents

Introduction1

Discussion1

Conversion Sustainability1

Economic Benefits2

Environmental and Social Advantages4

Social and Environmental Concerns5

Government Support7

Conclusion7

Mitigation plan for Energy Conversion

Introduction

Hydroelectric power is the electrical power conversion from the gravitational potential energy of falling water. This well-established technology catapults water to the status of leading renewable energy resource for electrical conversion in the United States and worldwide. According to the Energy Information Administration, it accounted for 71 percent of renewable generation in the United States and 63 percent worldwide in 2007. This plan should be implemented throughout the country to reduce environmental affects. These amounts correspond to 6 percent of the total electrical energy converted in the United States and 24 percent of the world total. Hydroelectric power's significant contribution to the electrical energy supply results from the simple concepts for its plant design, its economic and environmental advantages over other resources, and its ability to meet consumer energy needs immediately on demand. With all the advantages of hydropower, there are also social and environmental concerns resulting from the construction of dams and the spinning of underwater turbines. These impacts are well understood and can be prevented with proper technologies and planning (U.S. Government, 2009).

Discussion

Conversion Sustainability

Conversing hydroelectric power from falling water is a mechanically simple process. Water released from a dammed reservoir or on its natural path downstream falls from a certain height to flow through turbines. As it falls, the water's gravitational potential energy is converted into the kinetic energy of its motion. The water flows through a series of turbines that are connected by a common shaft to the rotor of an electrical generator. The mechanical energy of the rotating turbines is converted into electrical energy by the generator through the principle of electromagnetic induction. The generator consists of electromagnets mounted on its rotor and coils of copper wire on its stationary stator. As the magnetic field rotates, it induces a current in the stator coils that supplies electrical power to the national grid to be transmitted and distributed to consumers. The amount of electrical power generated from the falling water depends on its flow rate, the amount flowing through a given volume over time, and the head—the height difference from the reservoir to the turbine. The total power output of the world's hydroelectric plants is 675,000 MWe, enough to supply the annual energy needs of 1 billion people.

Hydropower plants fall under six major technologies: impoundment, run-of-river, kinetic hydropower, micro scale, diversion, and ...