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THE CHANGING WORLD OF POWER GENERATION AND CONSUMPTION
Остання редакція: 2024-11-09
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Energy affects all aspects of human life. It can’t be overestimated. Energy is needed to power equipment, domestic appliances, manufacturing and many other. During the last hundred- and fifty-years power generation has started to develop extremely fast, although first attempts of using energy were made almost one and a half millenniums ago. Firstly, it was windmills and watermills. Then steam engine was invented. It caused the Industrial Revolution: human work was replaced by machines greatly. The discovery of electromagnetic induction by Michael Faraday in 1831 laid the foundation for the creation of generators and transformers which allowed the conversion of mechanical energy into electrical energy. In the early 19th century coal along with oil became the primary energy source used for steam engines and power plants.
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