An electric power station (100MW) transmits power to a distant load through long and thin cables. Which of the two modes of transmission would result in lesser power wastage: transmission of: (i) 20,000 V or (ii) 200V?

An electric power station ( 100 MW) transmits power to a distant load through long and thin cables. Which of the two modes of transmission would result in lessere power wastage : Power transmission of : (i) 20,000 V or (ii) 200 V?

An electric power station ( 10 MW) transmits power to a distant load through long and thin cables. Which of the two modes of transmission would result in lessere power wastage : Power transmission of : (i) 20,000 V or (ii) 200 V?

11 kW of electric power can be transmitted to a distant station at (i) 220 V (ii) 22000 V. Which of the two transmission modes be preferred and why ? Support your answer with calculations.

1 MW power is to be delivered from a power station to a town 10 km away. One uses a pair of Cu wires of radius 0.5 cm for this purpose. Calculate the fraction of ohmic losses to power transimitted if (i) power is transformer is used to boost the voltage to 11000 V, power transmitted, then a step down transformer is used to bring voltages to 220 V. (rho_(Cu) = 1.7 xx 10^(-8) SI unit)

Suppose India has a target of producing by 2020 AD, 200,000 MW of electric power, ten percent of which was to be obtained from nuclear power plants. Suppose we are given that, on an avedrage, the efficiency of utilization(i.e conversion to electric energy) of thermal energy produced in a reactor was 25% . How much amount of fissionable uranium would our country need per year by 2020 ? Take the heat energy per fission of .^(235)U to be about 200 MeV .

Read the following text and answer the following questions on the basis of the same: At power plant, a transformer increases the voltage of generated power by thousands of volts so that it can be sent of long distances through high-voltage transmission power lines. Transmission lines are bundles of wires that carry electric power from power plants to distant substations. At substations, transformers lower the voltage of incoming power to make it acceptable for high volume delivery to nearby end-users. Electricity is sent at extremely high voltage because it limits so-called line losses. Very good conductors of electricity also offer some resistance and this resistance becomes considerable over long distances causing considerable loss. At generating station, normally voltage is stepped up to around thousands of volts. Power losses increase with the square of current. Therefore, keeping voltage high current becomes low and the loss is minimized. Another option of minimizing loss is the use of wires of super-conducting material. Super-conducting materials are capable of conducting without resistance, they must be kept extremely cold, nearly absolute zero, and this requirement makes standard super-conducting materials impractical to use. However, recent advances in super-conducting materials have decreased cooling requirement. In Germany recently 1 km super-conducting cable have been installed connecting the generating station and the destination. It has eliminated the line loss and the cable is capable of sending five times more electricity than conventional cable. Using super-conducting cables Germany has also get rid of the need of costly transformers. Transformers generate waste heat when they are in operation and oil is the coolant of choice. It transfers the heat through convection to the transformer housing, which has cooling fins or radiators similar to heat exchangers on the outside. Flush point is a very important parameter of transformer oil. Flashpoint of an oil is the temperature at which the oil ignites spontaneously. This must be as high as possible (not less than 160^(@)C from the point of safety). Fire point is the temperature at which the oil flashes and continuously burns. This must be very high for the chosen oil (not less than 200^(@)C ). Flush point of an oil is