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There are multiple reasons for this. First of all, water is available in almost every place on the Earth. It doesn't pollute the air, doesn't cause health use and is easily handle.
Other factor is the fact that water has a really high specific heat. This means that water, and more specifically steam, can aborb and transport more energy. A lower heat capacity would imply the need to boil more of the liquid to obtain the same amount of energy. This combine with the fact that water expands at a large rate when boiling, combine with everything mentioned previously, and you get a liquid with all the characteristics that a efficient turbine requires to work.
Answer:
Explanation:
If we have a periodic wave we need to satisfy the following basic relationship:
From the last formula we see that the velocity is proportional fo the frequency.
For this case we have the following info given by the problem:
We know that the frequency is the reciprocal of the period so we have this formula:
And if we replace we got:
Now since we have the value for the wavelength we can find the velocity like this:
And if we convert this into cm/s we got:
The advantages of generating electricity using a hydroelectric power station rather than wind turbines is that it's not polluting anything since it's regular water. It also can be used over and over again.
The disadvantages of using a hydroelectric power station is that it can be very deadly and cause damage to towns if it overfills or falls apart releasing all the water. Since nothing lasts forever, eventually they will break apart and would require everyone to evacuate before doing so. Another disadvantage is that it disrupts migration of animals that live in the water such as fish.
It's better than wind turbines because wind turbines require a lot of wind to turn and on days without wind, very little energy can be produced.
