The Amazon River Has a Flow Rate of 2

question 18

Essay

The Amazon River has a flow rate of 2.09×105 m³/s (the largest in the
world) at an average velocity of 0.7 m/s. If 10% of this power could be extracted with a run-of-the-river hydroelectric facility, what would be the output in MWe?

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