Significant winds can be a blessing and a curse. In today’s world of depleting natural resources and pursuing alternative energy as a result, wind power has attracted more and more attention because wind is a renewable source of power. However, today’s technology for wind power output cannot meet the high demands of power consumption (see [...]
This is Part 4 of our series on “Intro to Power”. If you haven’t checked out Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 already, I recommend that you do. I talked about the fundamentals to electricity generation, steam turbine power plants, and efficiency.
Now that you have a better understand of how most of today’s power plants work, [...]
This is Part 3 of our launching of Engineerography Blog. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 and Part 2 already, I recommend that you do. I talked about the fundamentals to electricity generation and steam turbine power plants.
Efficiency is the hot word of the news today, but the science and engineering of it is actually [...]
This is Part 2 of our grand launching of Engineerography Blog. If you haven’t checked out Part 1 already, I recommend that you do. I talked about the fundamentals to electricity generation there.
The simplest form of a steam turbine power plant consists of a boiler and a turbine driving an electric generator. Typically, the axis of [...]
I’d like to start off with something so important, but so invisible, in our everyday lives. We all know by now that energy and power generation is the hot topic that’s moving us forward, with talk about global climate change, renewable energy, and “green” technology.
I’ll kick off the blog with a special 4-part series about energy [...]