Infografia

HYDROELECTRIC POWER STATION

Swamp of Susqueda

It's located in Osor, Catalonia.

1) It is a renewable power plant 2) It is economically better, because there are no fuel costs. 4) Some hydroelectric power plants they allow water sports.

Inconveniences

1) Damage of the environment: in order to build a hydroelectric power plant, it causes damage to the environment because to create the swamp trees must be cut down and the fauna that lives there must be uninhabited.

Advantages

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Picture swamp of Susqueda

Hydropower plants are based on harnessing the energy of water carried by rivers to convert it into electricity.

1) The water in the tank goes down a forced pipe and becomes kinetic energy.

2) The water moves the turbine blades which produce a rotational motion.

3) Electricity is generated in the alternator.

4) The transformer passes the continuous generated energy to alternating energy

The measures of the swamp are: 357 m of altitude, and the minimum to 252 m.