Virender Sehwag Biography , Age, family, Stats
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Power plants (power stations)
A single large power plant can generate enough electricity (about 2 gigawatts, 2,000 megawatts, or 2,000,000,000 watts) to supply a couple of hundred thousand homes, and that's the same amount of power you could make with about 1000 large wind turbines working flat out. But the splendid science behind this amazing trick has less to do with the power plant than with the fuel it burns. The real magic isn't that power plants turn fuel into electricity: it's that even small amounts of fossil fuels contain large amounts of energy. A kilogram of coal or a liter of oil contains about 30MJ of energy—a massive amount, equivalent to a good few thousand 1.5-volt batteries! A power plant's job is to release this chemical energy as heat, use the heat to drive a spinning machine called a turbine, and then use the turbine to power a generator (electricity making machine). Power plants can make so much energy because they burn huge amounts of fuel—and every single bit of that fue...
15 batting records held by Virat Kohli
Let's have a look at 15 cricketing records already held by king Virat Kohli Virat Kohli is one of the greatest batsmen of the modern cricketing era. He has taken run-scoring in cricket to a whole new level, surpassing batting records at a very swift rate. Even the burden of captaincy hasn't had any effect on his prodigious run scoring, instead, he has created many records as a skipper as well. He plays aggressive cricket and is always looking to win the game for India. His aggressive mindset has helped India compete with passion on foreign tours. He has been touted by many former legends to break many long-held cricket records. Kohli is the fastest batsman to reach 10000 ODI runs. He took just 205 innings to the reach the milestone, breaking the record held by Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who did it in 259 innings. He took only 10 years and 68 days to achieve 10000 ODI runs. This is the fastest by any batsman to reach 10000 ODI runs. The previ...
Top 10 Interesting Facts about MS Dhoni
Top 10 Interesting Facts about MS Dhoni 1. He was very talented as a kid For those who don’t know, Mahi is not only a talented cricket player, he has also played a fair deal of football. Apart from these two, he also used to have a good rapport at the badminton court. Dhoni made his Ranji Trophy debut for Bihar in the 1999–2000 seasons as an eighteen-year-old. It is great for India to have a multi-talented athlete like him. 2. He used to work as a TTE before being in the Indian cricket team For those who have watched MS Dhoni: the untold story, it is already known that MS Dhoni used to be a ticket collector at Kharagpur’s station before being the iconic cricketer he is right now. Throughout history, we have seen th...