Energy Sources Project: Hydropower
Important Reminders...
CITING INFORMATION
- You may not simply copy and paste information from notes, the internet, or other students. It must be put in your own words.
- You must include a list of sources you used for each slide in the speaker comments on the slide. It does not need to be in MLA or APA format, just include the name of the source and a link to it. "Google", "Yahoo Answers", etc. are not the names of any source.
- You should start with Google Slides of notes, classwork, and resources on this website. If you found a source not on this list and want to use it, let me know and we will vet it together.
BEWARE OF BIASED SOURCES
Energy is a very complex and political issue, so most of the information on the internet is biased (not balanced, influenced by opinion). The websites below are good places to start for information... but some are made and paid for by industry, making them biased (I put "BIASED" after their name in the advantages/challenges section). They tend to have misleading information that focuses on the advantages and ignores and downplays the challenges. Occasionally they have misinformation (wrong/lies). This is especially the case when a source of electricity is claimed to be "green", "clean", or "better for the environment". I tried to avoid websites that have a lot of misinformation, but many have a little. How can you tell? You should always consider the source of your information and compare it to other ones that are either unbiased or biased the other way!
LINKS TO INFORMATION ABOUT HYDROPOWER
Unit Notes and Study Guides:
- Unit 1: Energy Types, LOL Diagrams
- Unit 2: States of Matter, Phase Changes, Phase Change Diagrams and LOLs
- Unit 3: Periodic Table, Subatomic Particles
- Unit 4: Chemical Bonding- Ionic and Metallic- Conductors/Insulators
- Unit 5: Chemical Bonding- Covalent and Hydrogen, Polarity
- Unit 6: Materials Science
- Midyear Review Unit: Sources of Electrical Energy Project
- Semester 1 Full Study Guide
How hydropower works:
- Class notes about Hydropower
- The National Energy Education Development Project:
- Hydropower Energy Flow Diagram Packet (last page especially)
- Hydropower At A Glance
- Hydropower Information Packet (Ignore the last page about hydrokinetic energy, just focus on hydropower plants.)
- US Energy Information Administration:
- Hydropower (kid version)
- Hydropower (adult version)
- US Environmental Protection Agency (This part of the site was created in 2011 and removed in 2013. The link here is to an archived version.):
- Water Energy just focus on the hydroelectric dam part
- US Department of Energy:
- How Hydropower Generators Work
- Types of Hydropower (more advanced)
- National Geographic:
- National Hydropower Association
- Union of Concerned Scientists:
- How Hydroelectric Energy Works (more advanced)
- Austin Real Estate:
- Texas Water Resources: Civil Engineering and Uses of Dams (Created by an individual aggregating information about dams and hydropower from many government/university/nonprofit sites.)
Switch Energy Alliance video (we watched this in class):
US Department of Energy:
How much and where hydropower is used in the US, MA, Hingham:
- Class Notes:
- Maps and just a Google Doc of the Sankey Diagrams (made using: US Energy Information Administration: Energy Use by Region of the U.S. and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Sankey Diagrams if you want to explore them on your own for fun)
- Hingham Municipal Lighting Plant:
- Annual Reports (how much of each source of electricity Hingham uses)
- US Energy Information Administration:
Benefits & concerns of hydropower:
- US Department of Energy (This part of the site was created in 2011 and removed in 2017. The links here are to archived versions.):
- Foundation for Water and Energy Education:
- National Hydropower Association (BIASED):
- Hydropower including this video
- Union of Concerned Scientists (BIASED):
- Austin Real Estate:
- Texas Water Resources: Civil Engineering and Uses of Dams (Created by an individual aggregating information about dams and hydropower from many government/university/nonprofit sites.)
- The National Energy Education Development Project (probably BIASED- you can see who funds it here and who runs it here):
- Hydropower Information Packet On second to last page.
- World Nuclear Association (BIASED):