The turbine in the figure uses the flow of the river channeled under the dam, as shown. The friction losses of the system are hf=3.5V^2/(2g), where V is the average velocity in the inlet duct. For what flow in m^3/s would power of 25 MW be extracted? Which of the two solutions has a better "conversion yield"?

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