EBOOK - Năng lượng tái tạo và môi trường (Bikash Pandey & Ajoy Karki) - 438 Trang.
Hydropower generates over 1000 GW globally, producing more than 4000 TWh each year, around
16.5% of the world’s total electricity. This makes it by far the largest source of renewable electricity when the world is racing against time to combat climate change by greening its energy supply.
Although water wheels were utilized by humans as a source of energy since antiquity, industrialscale hydropower required the development of modern turbines starting in the first half of the nineteenth century, building on fundamentals of hydraulic machines spelled out by the great mathematician, Euler, half a century earlier.
