Turbine+of+a+power+station,+by+David

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A ** turbine ** is a mechanical device that extracts energy from a fluid flow and converts it into useful work. It has at least one moving part. For example, a windmill is a turbine. Another example is the waterwheel.

Gas, steam, and water turbines usually have a casing around the blades that contains and controls the working fluid.

Almost all electrical power on Earth is produced with a turbine of some type.

**1) What do you like/dislike about your product?** I chose the turbine because we're studying energy and how it's produced in Natural Science, so I did my project about it. But I also like it because it's the responsible for all the electricity we have at home, and I couldn't do anything without it! But it has also some things I dislike. For example, they don't take all the energy they can, just a small part. Let's see if, in the future, they can get more xD  **2) What is moving in your object? (add a video, animation, or pictures with the element that works when the object is moving...)** Really, turbines have an engine, which is the main object in moving. All the other parts (blade, propeller, electric generator...) react when the engine is working, and they produce mechanical energy.



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** 3) **** How are the moving parts joined together? (picture, text, video...) ** Probably, the different parts are joined by screws and nuts, as usual.



**4) W**** hat movement is produced? (circular, linear...) ** The movement is circular, and thanks to it, we can get electricity later.  media type="custom" key="23074650"  **5) Why are the moving parts used? (text...)** Because we can take advantage of this movement. When the turbine moves, it produces mechanical energy. Then, this mechanical energy is transmited from the engine to the rest of the parts, and finally, all this energy is transformed in an electric generator into electric energy, that depending on the power station, it's distributed to the houses :)

** 6) How do they work? (video, text...) ** You can watch the previous videos, they have nice explanations about how do they work, and also question 5.

** 7) ** ** Curiosities ** - The biggest eolic turbine in the World is "off-shore", in France. It can supply 5000 houses, and its blades are 75 m long. - There is a giant turbine, which keeps in the air, which gets energy from the wind. It flies because the helium in its interior. - The turbine: "Eole water" can transform the moist air into drinking water. - Here I leave a video where you can see what happens if you put behind a turbine xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDç media type="custom" key="23082792"

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