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For the following renewable energy power system, describe how it is works

1. Wind
- Windmills have been assisting mankind to convert the energy contained in wind to
many other useful forms for the last thousand years. Today’s wind turbines are capable
of converting a great amount of energy in wind into electricity. This is due to the blade
which are developed using state-of-the-art aerodynamic analysis and the other
performance-enhancing equipment. If the blowing wind can turn the wing, we will
receive electricity from the generator that is attached to it. The blade has a lot of airfoil
cross-sections consisting of different sizes and shapes from the root to tip. The simple
airfoil technology makes the wind turbine blade turn. That means that a lift force is
produced when a fluid moves over an airfoil. This way the wind turbine achieves the
basic rotation we are accustomed to seeing

2. Hydroelectric
- Harnessing that power is what hydroelectric stations have been designed to do for over
a hundred years in Ontorio, in essence they are factories that convert the energy of
falling water into the flow of electrons or what is commonly called electricity. The
electricity that powers the province, most hydroelectric stations use either water
diverted around the natural drop of a river such as a waterfall or Rapids or a dam built
across the river to raise the water level and provide the drop needed to create a driving
force. Water at a higher level is collected in the forbade, it flows through the plant
intake into a pipe called a penstock which carries it down to a turbine waterwheel at the
lower water level. The water pressure increases as it flows down the penstock. It is this
pressure and flow that drives the turbine that is connected to the generator. Inside the
generator is the rotor that is spun by the turbine. Large electromagnets are attached to
the rotor located within coils of copper ire called a stator, as the generator rotor spins
the magnets, a flow of electrons is created in the coils of the stator this produces
electricity that can be stepped up in voltage through station transformers and sent
across transmission lines, the falling water having served its purpose exits a generating
station to the tailrace where it rejoins the mainstream of the river to continue the cycle
of clean renewable energy .

3. Ocean or waves
- Waves are created by the wind which in turn is caused by the sun. this makes wave
energy a renewable resource. A flashing beacon on top of the device alerts passing
ships. As the surface of the water moves up and down, the float moves with the waves
while pulling on a cable below. The column magnets move up and down with the waves
inside the generator coils. An electric current is induced in the coils of wire as the
magnets move up and down. The wave energy is securely anchored to the seabed. The
electric current from the machine is carried through cables to the shore.

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