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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 6:40pm.

Water drops over 49 m high Niagara Falls at the rate of 6.0 106 kg/s. If all the energy of the falling water could be harnessed by a hydroelectric power plant, what would be the plant's power output?

it says they want the answer in terms of GW

physics - bobpursley, Saturday, February 19, 2011 at 8:06pm
mass/time * g* h= power

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