A Home Owner in an Area with Substantial Elevation Changes

question 16

Essay

A home owner in an area with substantial elevation changes and a large annual rainfall (1.54 m) plans to supplement electricity needs of 1.1 kW average over the year with a hydroelectric installation. An open tank of 15 m in diameter collects precipitation that falls on its surface. Periodically the tank is drained through a penstock to a hydroelectric generator at an elevation of 100 m below the tank. Discuss the merits of this approach.

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Definitions:

Hemostasis

The physiological process by which bleeding ceases, involving blood vessel constriction and clot formation.

Thrombin

An enzyme in blood plasma that causes the clotting of blood by converting fibrinogen to fibrin.

Systole

Contractile phase of the cardiac cycle.

Diastole

Relaxation phase of the cardiac cycle.