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Bhutan, the world's newest democracy, is hoping to boost its economic prospects by harnessing its major natural resource - water.
The Tala hydro-electric dam in southern Bhutan is already making $175 million a year by exporting electricity to India.
As Tony Birtley reports, another six big hydro-electric projects are in the pipeline.
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Albany Engineering President James Besha lead a Tour of the historic Mechanicville Hydroelectric Station on the Hudson River, on Jan. 20, '07. This is the oldest continuously operating hydroelectric plant in the United States. It has run 24/7 for more than 100 years. It's so old its output is at 40 Hertz, so they change frequency with a Motor/generator set.
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Created by Menlo Student Eric Heimark for Applied Science Research class. Able to produce upwards of 70 watts power and charge a Motorola Razr phone in roughly 2.5 hours, light bulbs, etc. The units reading in the video is hard to see b/c I was varying the water flow during the video; I will try to post a follow-up with the phone charging soon.
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Unofficial tour of the historic Green Valley hydroelectric plant near Valencia, California. Richard Parker talks about the history and operation of one of the states oldest power stations. Video by Bill Reinhardt with Connie Collins.
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Lecture Series on Power System Generation, Transmission and Distribution by Prof.D.P.Kothari,
Centre for Energy Studies, IIT Delhi
For more details visit http://nptel.iitm.ac .in
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