We produce electricity from water, but why don't we get shock when we touch water?

Question

Is not the creation of God intersting, making complex things from simple objects and sometimes loosing control of it, like the chaoes theory of Ian Malcolm, the mathematician in the Jurassic park book.

For the uses, who prove choas theory wrong and water it self contain the energetic power to produce electricity. I 'snt God's creation quite fascinating Creating complex systems from simple behavior like the chaoes theory of Ian Malcolm in the Jurassic Park book [not the example from the movie] just like the prediction of the pool going wrong predicting things about electricity g0es wrong and the best example is that people die because of it. It is true that water conducts electricity but the point exists that water produce elecricitiy and it is true I know because light lits above my head and I am sitting in the libary now. Water itself can produce electricity because it is the only substance used to produce electricity. In hydroelectric power station. The electricity source is made itself from water. But it is that the new scientific theories prove that the movement of the force of the earth can make electric sources in water itself.

Answer 1

Electricity is produced from the flow of water through a turbine. The usual is that the water drops through the turbine giving up potential energy. The turbine spins a coil of wire in a magnetic field and that is where the electricity is generated.

In some small streams a water wheel is partly immersed in the flow of the stream and that kinetic energy of movement turns the wheel that spins the coil. Less expenditure to build but less energy available.

The composition of the water itself has nothing to do with making the energy. You could get the same electricity generation if you had a wind turbine in which the force of the wind created the spinning so that is no water just air.

Answer 2

Well, his chaos theory wasn't correct first of all, at least in the movie, I don't know how the book portrayed it. In the movie he did the water drop trick, and while chaos theory is real, this is not a good example. Water would usually follow the path set by the original drop, because it already lubricated and matted down the resistant hairs on her hand, but in the movie you can clearly see he ignored this by placing the second drop on a different part of her hand (watch it again). This is the movie, I don't know how the book does it.


Anyway, no it's not really that big of a deal. Water doesn't produce electricity. Water conducts electricity, but it's not even the water that does it, it's the electrolytes in the water that provide an easy path for electricity to flow. Water itself cannot produce electricity. So unless there is an electric source somewhere in the water, we will not get shocked.

Answer 3

The electricity produced from water does not come from the water. The flow of a river or stream can turn a coil of wire and thus cause a magnetic force to cut through this wire. Its the magnetic force that is converted to electricity, not the water, the water is just a source of movement.
This is the same concept as a home gas electrical generator, except instead of spinning the wheel with a gas powered motor, you are using a water wheel and the force of the river.

Answer 4

Water doesn't actually contain electricity. The flow of the water in a hydroelectric plant powers turbines that produce the electricity. And the steam generated from heating water with uranium (in nuclear power plants) or fossil fuels again turns turbines that produce the electrcitiy.

BTW - JP is a novel.

Answer 5

it's not the chemical power of water but the physical power of water that produces electricity. i should know i come from an area close to Niagara Falls.
Water turns turbines on an engine that power the generator to supply an area with power.

Answer 6

fresh pure water can't conduct the electric current because it doesn't contain any dissolved mins. (TDS=0)