Top 5 Innovations in the Electric Power Industry Eat This, Never Diet Again! Learn How Here... (DailyWellness) How much do you know about the advances in the electric power industry? DCI Top 5 Innovations in the Electric Power Industry Would you buy a home without functioning power outlets? Weve come to depend on electric power for many of our day-to-day activities. When there are outages, we feel the impact of that dependency, followed by a sense of relief when the powers back on again. Electricity has helped us stay healthier, work more efficiently and live life around the clock. Because electricity has had such a positive influence on our lives, science and industry researchers are constantly finding ways to provide electric power more easily and inexpensively. As a result, innovations in electric power have made the industry cleaner and more efficient throughout its history, and made electric service available to millions of homes. This article includes our top five picks from those innovations. Well look at technology targeted to certain energy resources, and well check out the core components that give you access to those resources. To kick things off, lets look a current innovation for a long-used renewable resource. 5: Wind Turbines For millennia, people have harnessed the power of the wind to accomplish tasks. For example, merchants once relied on the wind to sail the world. Also, old windmills, once used to mill cereals, are an iconic part of Hollands landscape. With our lives centered around electricity, modern scientists have found innovative ways to convert the kinetic energy from the wind into electric power. Today, around the world, the wind-electric turbine is becoming as iconic as the Dutch windmill. A wind turbine typically consists of a large, three-bladed propeller, called a rotor, atop a tower thats high enough that nothing blocks it from the wind. The turbine has a drive train similar to a cars engine that includes an electric generator. The electricity generated gets added to the electric grid, which powers hundreds of homes and businesses in a geographic location. One small wind turbine can power a single home or small business. These smaller versions have rotors between 8 and 25 feet (2.4 and 7.6 meters) in diameter and can stand up to 30 feet (9.1 meters) in the air. Wind farms are becoming increasingly common in large open spaces. You can see some of these farms during a drive or flight through the Western United States, with thousands of giant white wind turbines stretching across hillsides as far as the eye can see. Next, lets look at another innovation creating electricity from the kinetic energy from nature.
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