Despite being about 90 years old, the Hoover Dam is still generating plenty of electricity every year. There are 17 enormous turbines at the bottom of the dam – 9 on the Arizona side and 8 on the Nevada side – and together they generate about 4 billion kilowatt-hours of power every year. While that […]
The Hoover Dam is one of the most important engineering projects in American history, both because of what it does and because of what it represents. The initial purpose of the dam was very simple: it was designed to halt the flow of the Colorado River so the water could be distributed to farmers in […]
The water trapped behind the Hoover Dam is called Lake Mead, and it’s the largest man-made lake in the United States. Its deepest point is 532 feet at full capacity, although the water levels have been lower in recent years. Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the US in terms of water capacity, holding […]
The Hoover Dam might look like nothing more than an enormous concrete wall, but the inside holds 17 powerful generators that generate about 4 billion kWh of electricity every year, supplying power to about 1.3 million people. This kind of energy is called hydroelectricity, and it’s the most frequently-used type of clean energy in the […]
