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A water wheel is a machine for converting the kinetic energy of flowing or falling water into useful forms of power, often in a watermill. A water wheel consists of a large wheel (usually constructed from wood or metal), with numerous blades or buckets attached to the outer rim forming the drive mechanism. Water wheels were still in commercial ...
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Schematic diagram of an overshot water wheel. Date: 11 March 2007 (original upload date) (Original text: March 11, 2007) Source: Transferred from to Commons. (Original text: Original artwork by Daniel M. Short) Author: The original uploader was DanMS at English Wikipedia. (Original text: Daniel M. Short) Other versions
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Typical efficiency of water wheels exploiting only the kinetic energy was around 30%. [1] These wheels are called stream water wheels, or kinetic water wheels. Instead, undershot water wheels are used in low head sites, like less than 1.5 m, and they also exploit the potential energy of the flow, with efficiencies of up to 84%.