Discover how to build a simple DIY water-powered electricity generator at home using accessible materials. This step-by-step ...

Hydroelectric power has always been a pretty “green” way to generate electricty, simply interrupting the natural hydrological cycle to borrow some of its potential energy to convert to electrical ...

Voith Hydro was picked to equip the planned 695-MW Keeyask hydroelectric station in Manitoba for utility Manitoba Hydro. The contract calls for Voith to design, supply and install seven new ...

The mighty Mississippi River may become even more powerful – if an electricity-generating, 12-foot-in-diameter turbine as expected gets installed under a barge near Lock & Dam No. 2 in Hastings. The ...

A hydroelectric turbine generator will be installed at Brainerd's hydrodam next spring. The new, improved technology will hopefully generate more electricity for the city, said Bob Schulte, vice ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A water turbine is a rotating machine that converts mechanical energy of water to electrical work through the process of turbine rotation. The device rotates and the rotating ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A startup business that places small turbines in irrigation canals to generate electricity has raised $18.4 million to scale up its technology for carbon-free hydropower. Emily Morris ...

Siphons are one of those physics phenomena that, like gyroscopes, non-Newtonian fluids, and electricity, seem almost magical. Thanks to atmospheric pressure, simply filling a tube with liquid and ...

The No.14 hydro generator unit of China's Baihetan hydropower station, the world's first one-million kilowatt (kW) hydroelectric turbine generator developed by the Harbin Electric Machinery Company, ...

Swiss scientists have designed a turbine that can fit in human arteries and generate enough power to recharge pacemakers, IEEE Spectrum reports. It’s like an implantable hydroelectric generator for ...

B.C. Hydro’s 1,100-MW Site C project has reached another key milestone, with the fourth generating unit now online, meaning means two-thirds of the project’s generating capacity is now operational.