HOOVER DAM

POWER

• The Hoover dam produces 3,806,934,845kWh of power.
• This is enough for nearly 8 million people in Arizona, southern California, and southern Nevada.

VOLTAGE

• Voltage is an electromotive force or potential difference expressed in volts. It is similar to power
• The Hoover dam has Sixteen high voltage power lines, one rated as high as 500,000 volts, leave the Hoover Dam carrying power to its markets

CURRENT

• Current is a flow of electricity which results from the ordered directional movement of electrically charged particles
• The current of the Hoover dam is actually the water itself, the Hoover dam reservoir is the largest in the world.

RESISTANCE

• Resistance is an electrical quantity that measures how the device or material reduces the electric current flow through it.
• The resister of the Hoover dam are actually the dam walls, the wall holds back the water. The water on the lake side is more than 500 feet deep, and the lake holds a total of 10 trillion or so gallons of wate

SOURCES

• http://www.powerauthority.org/hoover-dam/
• http://www.usbr.gov/projects/Powerplant.jsp?fac_Name=Hoover+Powerplant