Alabama NewsCenter – Alabama Power engineer teaches schoolchildren about hydropower

By Stacy White

Alabama Power Engineer Kenneth Odom isn’t a full-time teacher, but he loves sharing his knowledge of hydropower across the state.

For the past six years, Odom, a Hydro Services engineer, has traveled across the state using a handmade model to show students how hydropower works to generate electricity. Odom and John Kirkland, hydro manager at Holt Dam, built the model.

The model has a type of turbine – a Pelton wheel – and a generator that uses a water valve to power a computer fan and a small lightbulb.

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