how do you make electricity using either a forest, hot springs, wind and waterfall?

Question

any sites you know of that can give info would be great.....

Answer 1

electricity is either made by chemical reactions, or by moving a magnetnic field over a copper wire, as i am sure you allready know, so the problem is geting a force that can move the magnet, to give inductance in the wire. causing a current to flow.
water turns the blades of a fan, or tubine whitch is conected to a magnet witch turns inside a copper coil.
so any natural way that can generate enough force to move the magnet, can be used.
with nuclear the heat is made in a chamber called a reactor whitch turns the water to steam the steam turns the turbine whitch is conected to the magnet.
if you have a propella connected to a magnet that is moved by wind that is driven by the sun, inside a copper coil you get some electricity
in water fall the downward force of the water turns the blades, withch turn the magnet, inside a coil,
all diffrent ways of doing the same thing.
not sure about forrest though, unless you burn the wood to make steam, to guess what turn the magnet inside the copper coil. or maybe you could cover the tree in magnets, and buld a copper coil next to it, then wait for the wind to sway the tree

Answer 2

I've written 4 books regarding wind, fuel cells and small hydro. a good source of wind info. is Bergey Windpower or the American Wind Energy Association. Canyon Industries has been helpful re: hydro. Hot springs encompasses geothermal energy which also covers other technologies using wells etc. Water Energy Distributers in New Hampshire was a good source of info. Forests would refer to Biomass technology. This utilizes burning wood chips to make steam to turn a generator. Also try NREL. gov for more info.

Answer 3

Forest - burn a log to boil up some water, turn a turbine generator with the steam.

Hot springs - how hot is it? Use a thermocouple.

Wind - use the wind to turn a wind turbine generator.

Waterfall - use the motion of the water to turn a turbine generator.

Answer 4

wind turbines....opposite of an elctric motor, magnets turn the rod in a motor but in a turbine the wond moves the rod and this his an effect on the magnets inside the generator and it causes a flow of electrons, prob best to look up how a wind turbine works in a search engine

Answer 5

In short, by using an electrical generator to convert the mechanical energy (wind, flowing water, steam) into electrical energy, using electromagnetic induction.

Answer 6

You can make electricity in all cases, but in every one you will need a turbine/ dynamo

Answer 7

wind- turbines to generate electricity
waterfall...hydro turbines to generate electricty
forest..using biomass to power small power stations

Answer 8

plug it all into the wall...