Category:Power generation
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Topics and devices which are capable of generating power such as nuclear power generation, solar power generation and hydroelectric power generation
Subcategories
- Distributed power generation - decentralized or multi-source power generation
- Generators - a machine that converts mechanical energy into electricity
- Geothermal power generation - electricity generated from thermal energy stored in the Earth
- Hydroelectric power generation - electricity generated from the movement of water
- Magnetohydrodynamic power generation - or MHD generation, the generation of thermal or kinetic energy directly into electricity at high temperatures without moving parts
- Nuclear power generation - the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity
- Power distribution - the transmission and distribution of electrical power
- Power generation planning - the planning of the need, type, and location of power generators
- Solar power generation - the generation of electricity from the light of the sun
- Turbomachinery - machines that transfer energy between a rotor and a fluid that includes both turbines and compressors
- Wind energy generation - the generation of energy from the movement of wind
Subcategories
This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total.
Pages in category "Power generation"
The following 213 pages are in this category, out of 213 total.
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- Howard C. Barnes
- John W. Batchelor
- René Andre Baudry
- Stephen Bechtel, Sr.
- Sterling Beckwith
- Bernard Behrend
- Peter L. Bellaschi
- Ernst Berg
- Loyal V. Bewley
- Oral-History:Rene Bidard
- Wolfram Boeck
- Eugene W. Boehne
- Don Bramlett
- John H. Brunke
- Charles F. Brush
- Oral-History:Janis Bubenko
- Early Electrification of Buffalo
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- Lionel Cahill
- Bernard M. Cain
- I. Muzaffer Canay
- Oral-History:Jack Casazza
- Milestones:First Central Station in South Carolina, 1882
- Photographs of Central Power Stations
- Markham Cheever
- Milestones:Chivilingo Hydroelectric Plant, 1897
- Lewis W. Chubb
- Walker L. Cisler
- Oral-History:Jacques Clade
- Oral-History:Charles Concordia
- Ashton B. Cooper
- Oral-History:Andrew Corry
- Andrew F. Corry
- Arthur Ulysses Craig
- Selden B. Crary
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- Oral-History:Luigi Dadda
- John Frederic Daniell
- Milestones:Largest Private (dc) Generating Plant in the U.S.A., 1929
- Milestones:Decew Falls Hydro-Electric Plant, 1898
- Lee De Forest
- William A. Del Mar
- Nabeel Aly Omar Demerdash
- Robert E. Doherty
- Henry C. Don Carlos
- Alex Dow
- John R. Dunki-Jacobs
- Oral-History:Sajjad Durrani
- Michel Duval
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- Edward P. Eardley
- Milestones:Thomas Alva Edison Historic Site at Menlo Park, 1876
- Milestones:Eel River High Voltage Direct Current Converter Station, 1972
- Electric Pantographs
- Early Applications of Electric Power
- First-Hand:Electrical Power Conversion
- First-Hand:Electrical power conversion
- William Emmet
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- Giuseppe Faccioli
- The Federal Theatre Project
- Louis Ferguson
- Henry Edward Foelker
- William J. Foster
- Myron M. Fowler
- Archives:Competitiveness and Electricity: Electricité de France Since 1946
- Archives:Constructing Competitiveness: The Politics of Engineering Work in the French Nuclear Program, 1955-1969
- Oral-History:Tetsuo Fujimura
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- Lawrence Hafstad
- Herman Halperin
- Fred C. Hanker
- Kiruba S. Haran
- Oral-History:Edwin Harder
- Everett J. Harrington
- Jinliang He
- First-Hand:Heat Losses in Isolated-Phase Bus Enclosures
- Rudolf E. Hellmund
- Oral-History:Henry B. Abajian
- Erling Hesla
- Edward M. Hewlett
- Charles R. Higson
- Theodore W. Hissey, Jr
- Charles H. Holley
- Morris D. Hooven
- Shu Yuen Ron Hui
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- Archives:Competition and Consolidation in the Electrical Manufacturing Industry, 1889-1892
- Martin H. McGrath
- William McMurray
- Andrew G.L. McNaughton
- Oral-History:John McPherson
- Thaddeus W. Mermel
- Ezra B. Merriam
- Hugo K. Messerle
- Milestones:Mill Creek No. 1 Hydroelectric Plant, 1893
- Stanley A. Miske, Jr.
- Antonello Monti
- Oral-History:Fusao Mori
- Charles John Mozina
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- Archives:Papers of Antonio Pacinotti
- Oral-History:Aage Pedersen
- Karen S. Pedersen
- Frank W. Peek
- Pelton Wheel
- Oral-History:Arno Penzias
- First-Hand:Petros N. Papas
- Arun G. Phadke
- Milestones:Commercialization and Industrialization of Photovoltaic Cells, 1959
- Milestones:Pinawa Hydroelectric Power Project, 1906
- Gaston Planté
- Michel Poloujadoff
- Franklin Pope
- Palmer Putnam's 1.5 MW Wind Turbine
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- William H. Sanders
- Marion A. Savage
- Anna Scaglione
- Oral-History:Harold Scherer
- Clement S. Schifreen
- Edmund Schweitzer
- Charles F. Scott
- Walter G. Scott
- Shippingport Nuclear Power Plant
- Milestones:Shoshone Transmission Line, 1909
- Wilfred F. Skeats
- Harold Smith
- Philip Sporn
- William Stanley
- Milestones:Star of Laufenburg Interconnection, 1958
- Herbert R. Stewart
- Lewis B. Stillwell
- Straphanger History: Lewis B. Stillwell's Power to Move People
- Edmund C. Stone
- Greg Charles Stone
- Norman Wilson Storer
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- William R. Tackaberry
- Milestones:Taum Sauk Pumped-Storage Electric Power Plant, 1963
- Oral-History:Benjamin R. Teare Jr.
- Telharmonium
- Nikola Tesla
- Melvin A. Thomas
- Elihu Thomson
- Archives:Papers of Elihu Thomson
- Panic at Three Mile Island
- Hamid A. Toliyat
- Philip Torchio
- Oral-History:Arno Treptow
- Philip H. Trickey
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Media in category "Power generation"
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