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This programme identifies different technical approaches for designing energy efficient housing, considering space heating, hot water and electricity supply. While technical solutions go some way to...
Shows how electricity is generated and moves from the power station to the home. Covers generation of electricity in a coal-fired power station - coal handling, boilers, water treatment, ash filtering power...
Describes how electricity is distributed from power stations to the end user. Key elements of the distribution process are addressed. These include line loss; transformers; the high voltage network;...
1: An examination of the electricity industry: uses aerial photography and 3-D computer modelling to explain the operation of two major generations of power station: the 1960s’ coal-burning station at...
Explores the materials science behind the engineering of national electricity supplies, both above and below ground. Shows work inside a high-voltage test lab and inside the production areas for porcelain...
Shows how wind turbines can produce safe, reliable, cost-effective and non-polluting electricity. Part 1 covers the properties of wind and shows how turbines work. Part 2 shows a vertical axis machine being...
Explains the workings of the Ferrybridge coal-fired power station and covers career opportunities in a power station.
Looks at the combined cycle gas turbine power station at Killingholme on Humberside. Shows how natural gas is burned to produce steam for power generation and how heat which would once have gone to waste is...
Shows how the Rheidol hydroelectric power station in Wales produces electricity.
Looks at the combined cycle gas turbine power station at Rye House near Hoddeston in Hertfordshire. Shows how natural gas burned in the turbine is used to generate electricity, and how the hot exhaust gases...
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