What is happening
You arrive at a gravity-fed water tower feeding an emergency turbine.
The turbine is stalling. The system holds 500 J in total, stored height energy accounts for 320 J, and the kinetic reading is drifting.
Energy conservationRunning
Total accounted
352J
System energy
500J
Energy ledger. Kinetic energy at 32 J. Total accounted 352 J, System energy 500 J. Currently total accounted is short by 148 J.
What has to balance