Turbine

Yuri Korneev a turbine operator was in charge of reactor #4 after he failed the safety test and it was now in the hands of the people in the operating room, so he was told to pay attention to reactor #8. The explosion in reactor #7 destroyed the reinforced concrete. Yuri…

up using an artificial chain reaction in the core, Nuclear fission continues this reaction by releasing several million times more energy than any chemical reaction could (Kurzgesagt, video: 1/3). This heat converts the water into steam, turning a turbine, which continues to the generator and so forth. The Light Water Reactor became the most common thermal-neutron reactor because of its simplicity and low cost. Consequently, it is neither the safest, most efficient, nor technically elegant…

transporting them across the dam is that it could mean the salmon are being delayed from spawning up river. An additional disadvantage of the salmon ladders is that it doesn’t help juvenile’s, so they have to go through the process of going through churning turbines or they have to go through the spillway gates on the dams. The gates can be a really big drop, like on the Detroit dam in Oregon. There is also the disadvantage of disease spreading to fish that get put into tanks on the boats and…

or to make use of them in their natural state, outdoors. In The Weather Project, Eliasson brings inside the weather, which is a part of the natural world that is ever-present, even in our concrete cities. He has brought a part of London into the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern, where this project was realised in 2003. The installation is fairly simple to describe- a semicircular ‘sun’ giving off a yellow light hangs high above the hall, set against an uneven ceiling mirror which reflects the…

Most of us want to be conscientious of our effect on the planet, but it takes a lot of discipline. Some people take longer showers and since they feel guilty about doing so, they might compound food, others plant a tree or donate to clean energy projects. What option do we have and how would we know if they are actually efficient, you might ask? I checked three organizations to see what we could do to better our tomorrow. One of the companies was Carbon Pollution Reduction, which build stoves…

The Industrial Revolution brought in high demand for labor. Families migrated from farms to industrialized cities to find work. Every member of the household had to work. Children were mistreated, overworked, and underpaid. During the industrial revolution, children were paid low wages and would reduce them if workers were late or business was bad. Children were paid ten percent of Men’s pay, this is one shilling a week, and in comparison, one month’s rent would cost 5 shillings. As industrial…

make a lot of noise, need big open spaces to be built on, and windmill farms are only available in certain states. Not only are they unattractive and inconvenient, they affect the wildlife around them. Birds are likely to come into contact with the turbines. It’s not just the blades that pose a risk to birds, wind developments can disrupt migration routes. If we replaced the TMI power plant with windmills, it could affect the bird species, especially bald eagles, which are already in risk of…

Radioactive. Dangerous. Massive. The process of splitting the atoms of uranium is just that. Uranium is used in nuclear bombs and in nuclear energy. We know that nuclear bombs are the most deadly weapon on the face of the earth, but there is a positive way to use the uranium. We use uranium in our nuclear energy reactors to provide a clean energy for our power grids. “America’s 99 nuclear power plants generate almost 20 percent of the nation’s electricity while emitting no carbon dioxide or…

Globalized Issue: Pollution With the escalation in its severity in recent years, society is increasingly gaining understanding on the global issue of air pollution. Air pollution is the contamination of the air as a result of smoke, dust, and essentially, harmful gases mixed into the atmosphere. People from all around the world are growing more concerned with the issue of air pollution each day, thanks to the emphasis the media has placed on it. As society develops awareness and grows…

that generates the richest of energy obtainable on earth. The energy from the sun is useful as it can be transformed to electricity. The wind energy is also one of the outstanding resources use to produce electric energy. The windmill or the wind turbine is a machine that transforms wind into electric energy and it harnesses the natural resources which is the current of air. While the energy which is taken from the sources that…