How a dam generates electricity

Have you ever seen a dam in real life? Those huge structures are not only vital for our water needs in dry seasons but are also quite helpful in providing extra energy.
By repurposing rivers and lakes, they reimagine vast ecosystems. They supply millions of homes around the globe with electricity, but how do these structures provide an alternative power source to humanity?
The short answer is by generating electricity from water. Acquiring dam power is simple in principle. Using the water’s kinetic energy and converting it into electricity is not something new and people have been benefiting from it since the first civilizations. They do this by using gravity to their advantage.
However, producing the amount of energy in today’s scale is not an easy task for sure. It is easier said than done. Therefore, it takes quite a number of professionals and engineers to build an electric generating dam. Thanks to the high efficiency of this conversion, hydroelectric dams are still one of the most convenient and preferred ways for alternative energy sources. Composing of four different parts, these magnificent engineering wonders have been providing us with energy while also helping the environment.
Dam energy has been used for quite a while, and the reason is clear.
If you also find these structures interesting and want to know more about how they function, we highly recommend you watch this video. You will be surprised how much you can learn about how dams are capable of converting the water-energy into electricity.
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I’m glad they have videos like this out there. Many people just take electricity for granted and don’t know (or sometimes even care) where it comes from and how it’s generated. This informs them of all that. :). I have known all this info for a very long time but it’s nice seeing it spread to the public.

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Did you dam thought this

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Dam took words out of my mouth.

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Around environment of dam can green vegetation. It's very beautiful.

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This channel will certainly blow up in a few months.

[@Anonymous-re9fd]

I kinda wish there would've been an explanation about how the generator works. great video nevertheless!

[@cameronallen5043]

There’s a lot on KZbin about that but basically in this case the high pressure water spins a turbine rotor at such a high speed it creates a magnetic field

[@omar90s91]

Very underrated channel

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Super underrated

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Incredible opportunities in using the ocean in unique ways to provide electric energy while also sending seawater to desalination plants near coastal plants

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The best explanation so far on electricity generation.

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Whenever the Narrator says Dams it has emotion in it

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yess worth for watching

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@@mohammedmujtaba712 yes

[@frankransainiofficial9610]

Am from Zambia and we are experiencing load shedding,12hrs per day,we had droubts,after seeing this video,I understand 👌🏾

[@soultrex9722]

1 Hydroelectric dam produces more electricity than 10,000 windmills. Windmills produce at 50% meanwhile a dam produces 95%. It's the cleanest form of energy we have

[@PerSon-xg3zr]

Now combine it with Fusion or Nuclear power and you have 130% energy. Ok yeah that sounds like a joke and it is, but combining nuclear or fusion with hydroelectric sounds interesting.

[@davidsklar1988]

Absolutely

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Damn!

[@howardlitson9796]

No damn. Cement wall and concrete of Dam can use line-x solid hardness chemical material

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@@howardlitson9796 will not

[@21schange73]

This a great green energy source, but when the dams were built, in many places that it was constructed. The designers and federal and state officials, never took to account the environmental impact at those tines.

[@danielg6967]

Needs must. The river will still flow just a different way. Over time, nature will adjust.

[@soultrex9722]

Many dams in the U.S like Ice Harbor and John Day were constructed under a peace treaty with the Indians. The dams presence is symbolic to the friendship we now share with the natives and the racism they left behind.

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most underrated channel on KZbin 👍

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If this was how Physics and Mathematics was thought to me in High School, I couldn't be struggling NOW to get my Bachelor in Electrical Engineering at 30 years old.

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This engineering is so interesting! :D

[@shaheemgen3394]

This only has 14k veiws? Ooh 40k now still less

[@danielg6967]

Water and gravity is the best way to make electricity. Mega power.

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5:46 Hamster?

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oh my god

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[@markhonea2461]

Show us an in depth explanation of the actual permanent magnets that are at the heart of the electrical generator. Please. There is not a single video about that, that I can find.

[@EphemeralProductions]

It’s basically a giant motor. Only instead of electricity being applied to make it spin, its doing the opposite. Look at any large industrial motor and you’ll see mostly what the inside of a dam generator looks like.

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

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I saw the srisailam dam that of Andhra pradesh

[@Mohammadali_9999]

I think water flowing out of a channel from bottom of a dam has more force , because it has all the weight of water behind and up it, but from top of a dam it's just like a water fall, doesn't have that huge weight to it.

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Hoover Dam is a modern marvel for electric generation.

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What a great "Damn" video. Well done. That was "Damn" educating. I hope to see more "Damn" videos in the future.🤓🤙

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You sir, deserve more views.👍🙏

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How do you control the frequency or Hertz of the power supply ?.

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you don’t

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i HOPE THIS CHANNEL BLOWS UP

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Do you said Damn?

[@imransayyed2251]

Why there is turbine? Why can't water directly fall on generator and spin it

[@michaeljnicolas1949]

You need converters to transform each form of energy into another. The generator transforms mechanical energy into electrical. Before the turbine, you only have potential into kinetic energy. The turbine converts the kinetic into mechanical. I’m assuming the turbines are near the generator acting as one system. So you can say the water is falling on the turbine portion of the generator.

[@gunsumwong3948]

The water rotates the turbine which has a common shaft with the generator. Got it?

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🤦🏻

[@returntothetruth1469]

You Don't Need a Rotation But A controlled Rotation and Secondly turbines are designed in such a way that they utilized maximum energy of water

[@gunsumwong3948]

@@returntothetruth1469 Out of the standard Pelton, Francis and Kaplan machines what hydro turbine generator you are referring to that doesn't need roatation and has a secondary turbine?

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Great video. Love it, so informative.

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Very informative. ❤

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Electrifying Video ⚡⚡

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So much to.learn in so little time.

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Well, I'll be damed!

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why repeat same thing over and over

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Wait, I was expecting the abundant resource to be water, not gravity

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They’re BOTH the abundant resource. :)

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Dams .. oh damn

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very intersting...

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the way you say 'mechanical' lmao.

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That's a lot of Dams

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What i heard in this video. Dams. Dams. Dams..

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nice video but these subtitles are too big

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Water resources from hot air and cold air to production.

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.. thanks for sharing your informative vedios May God bless you 😇🤗

[@GMT439]

Here's a clue to the FREE ENERGY. There are loads of underground rivers in all nations and there are turbine systems down there.

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Wow that was really interesting 😃

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my science teacher made me watch this.

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Damn! Heard a lotta dams!

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Dam boy he chonk

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Dams are river ecology's demon.

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Nice explanation

[@mchan1007]

Good video but didn't explain properly about the height of the damn for electricity creation. Basically, it sounds like the water pressure passing through the turbines would create electricity in the generators that creates the electricity which is then fed out over the power lines. If the water pushes the turbines which powers the generator, then it's passing through the damn that houses the turbines and generators. The dam controllers can control the water output which pushes the turbines. What does the water fall height have to do with electricity generation?

[@ratherbilal5059]

Lot of thanks to you sir.

[@Txepsiyu]

Good info, but all those spillway shots are showing wasted energy.

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

They are intermittent.

[@DevaAsuras]

If I was engineerie I would also put turbine on place where water is coming out.

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

Also use the second turbine to collect energy to pump the water back up to the top for further use or apply this principal in solar panel fields for night storage by pumping water uphill during the day to be released as hydro power during the night. Using the same water over and over.

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This was educative

[@ff.mychael]

"........DEMS!!" The DEMS don't give a DAM'! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Very interesting tho xD

[@GENERALWA5TE]

Is it me or can dams be even more efficient by having additional turbine which gets powered by the dam water exhaust?

[@DarkWolf5250]

The power provided by the drop in elevation is taken already through the turbines; adding another generator to the outflow wouldn't generate much power and may cost the main generator efficiency due to affecting the flow of the tailwater. The water they show discharging through the spillways in this video is excess water that the plant does not have the capacity to use; theoretically, the plants could be expanded with additional turbines to utilize this power, but dams are very expensive to make and every additional unit costs a lot more money. The dam would still likely need a spillway to deal with flood events or anything along those lines; building a hydro plant big enough to take all the possible flood flow would be both prohibitively expensive and a waste during most times of the year when water flowrates are far lower. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@GENERALWA5TE]

@@DarkWolf5250 I mean where that water is shooting out of the spout have another turbine there.

[@davidsklar1988]

Like an afterburner, genius

[@jonessenoj6753]

Water through a "Turbine" = FREE electricity for the life of the DAM. So why are we being charged more each year?????

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

Because they can with government support and approval.

[@Johannes_Brahms65]

Next time the narrator should not hold his poo but go to to the loo before recording.

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Well must say Dam is Damn! 😂

[@AY0169]

Lmao

[@ramadhanhaddad7348]

Qstn....cant we use some if the electricity produced by the dams generators then somehiw amplify it and use it again to turn the turbines??? That way elextricity would be endless

[@arhanbhat4730]

Have a science test coming up helped me understand, thanks

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

Many countries could benefit from using fields of solar panels to pump water higher up during the day and released as hydro power during the night when needed, Now that is not rocket science but would replace the batteries currently being used to store solar power for night use.

[@hil7850]

Repeating same thing again and again.

[@smitasrivastava5382]

I love it Thanks

[@scoobydo446]

Can they put another turbine to where all that excess water is flowing out ?

[@waitawhileexplorer3904]

The outflow is intermittent so not a constant source.

[@bumpyrock8722]

Damn ! That's crazy 😅

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Water is a prime mover as ic engine is a primemover to a car transmission

[@Stevenpa00]

Where can I get some dam bait?

[@dulajohnstone5704]

Damn this guy is repeating himself like a turbine

[@uthmanodedele2220]

I just love clean energy the solar and hydroplant it smart and cool i wish to scale it in my nation may Allah help me

[@kimondoDen]

Dam insightful

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Built multiple dam one after another.... unlimited energy....

[@voongnz]

So dam efficient

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Ok thanku for explaining

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Gravity batteries power plants.

[@MoistWontons]

I'm pretty dense, so this video confused me more than I was before I watched the video.

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Damn!! That Dam..

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Well dam!

[@techrickyross]

i’m a beaver, i don’t give a dam

[@cynthiaayers7696]

I still see a lot of potential power at the discharge ports of the dams they aren't even using..? What up with that.

[@DarkWolf5250]

The spillways shown in the video are used to pass excess flow that the turbines cannot pass. They generally are either in very limited use or not used at all when the flows are within the hydro plant's capacity to discharge. However, if the demand for electricity is low and units are offline, or if a large flood event comes along which the plant cannot pass on its own, the spillways are opened and the excess flow is allowed to escape that way rather than raise the reservoir to potentially dangerous levels and potentially overtop the dam (very bad!)

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Thank lots... Very interesting...

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Gravity / Gravy T is a 'THEORY' you speak like you know it's a fact.

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Amazing channel

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RDP Marine Australia for the new multi stage turbine update systems

[@JULIETUNRUH]

If you stand in front of the dam when the water is exiting then you are DEAD

[@ashishjosh2000]

But how does that turbine generator works ?? in full detail please for layman pls.

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It spins things.

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Thank you sir

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They r "Dam" good.

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Dam I didn't know that.

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Human mind 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

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DAMN..