Project: Electricity Generation

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    Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering
  • Project Name: Electricity Generation
  • Field Researcher: Dolt, after Ema
  • Department: Engineering
  • Faculty: Applied Science and Engineering
  • Start Date: 8th November 2001, revived 20th November 2002
  • End Date: Uncertain 2002
  • Next Check Date: um...
  • Assisting Sub-Editor: None as yet...

Project Description

This project was originally conceived and initiated by Researcher Ema in November 2001. However, Ema seems to have "left the building" since December 2001, and I have volunteered take on responsibility for the project.

Pages to be added soon:

  • Fundamentals of power generation (already largely covered by A715637?)
  • Fossil fuels: Coal and oil plants
  • Fossil fuels: Combined cycle gas turbine plants
  • Nuclear Power
  • Types of Nuclear Plant
  • Renewables: Wind Power
  • Renewables: Hydroelectric Power
  • Other Renewable sources
  • (Uncertain) The National Grid, supply and demand

The following pages were created by Ema as part of the original Project:

Contributing Researchers


And these canny people, while denying any responsibility for actually writing articles, have volunteered to volunteer information on various techie bits and bobs:

Further Information Required

  • If anyone knows aything about the National Grid system, please get in touch,
  • Any other suggestions are always welcome!

If you have further information that you think might be useful in this project, please post it in the conversations below, or contact the Field Researcher running this project (see above).


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