It is clear that water power has played a big part in human health, power and building civilisations from the Greeks through to modern day.
In days past water power gave humans many of the following benefits.
· irrigation for crops,
· water mills for grinding bread and spinning cotton,
· steam engines for powering boats, ships, cars, locomotives and
· traction engines for threshing hay and various other agricultural jobs
A lot of this power in the early days came from naturally occurring water courses like rivers and streams, which did not require any additional power source. The energy generated came from the natural force of the water (the mass x acceleration), caused from the force of gravity.
Later the burning of fossil fuels such as wood and coal were required to power steam engines, which meant that humans had to find to other energy – rich resources to generate the increasing force of power required to power them. Even though this may have created more powerful engines over time, there was a cost due to the depletion of the natural resources such as wood, coal and coke, which often had bad health side effects - such as pollution and smog in built up areas, causing poor human health and respiratory diseases.
This insatiable thirst for more and more high energy resources has come at a big cost to mankind, resulting not only in poorer health, but also the break out of wars between countries, as humans fought more often over the ever-increasing need for the ever - decreasing energy resources of the planet.
I learnt the techniques of making, researching and learning this information from the following subjects:
* Science - Physics
* Maths - Formulas and Problem Solving
* History - Ancient Cultures and their Habits of Harnessing Power
* English - Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling and focusing eyes on particular places on the pages
* Geography - Learning about the environment in which we live/d
In days past water power gave humans many of the following benefits.
· irrigation for crops,
· water mills for grinding bread and spinning cotton,
· steam engines for powering boats, ships, cars, locomotives and
· traction engines for threshing hay and various other agricultural jobs
A lot of this power in the early days came from naturally occurring water courses like rivers and streams, which did not require any additional power source. The energy generated came from the natural force of the water (the mass x acceleration), caused from the force of gravity.
Later the burning of fossil fuels such as wood and coal were required to power steam engines, which meant that humans had to find to other energy – rich resources to generate the increasing force of power required to power them. Even though this may have created more powerful engines over time, there was a cost due to the depletion of the natural resources such as wood, coal and coke, which often had bad health side effects - such as pollution and smog in built up areas, causing poor human health and respiratory diseases.
This insatiable thirst for more and more high energy resources has come at a big cost to mankind, resulting not only in poorer health, but also the break out of wars between countries, as humans fought more often over the ever-increasing need for the ever - decreasing energy resources of the planet.
I learnt the techniques of making, researching and learning this information from the following subjects:
* Science - Physics
* Maths - Formulas and Problem Solving
* History - Ancient Cultures and their Habits of Harnessing Power
* English - Grammar, Punctuation, Spelling and focusing eyes on particular places on the pages
* Geography - Learning about the environment in which we live/d