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A fossil fuel power plant is a factory that generates electricity, sells it to the power companies, and they sell it to us.
Power plants burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) to turn water into steam. This steam is used to spin the electricity turbines, generating electricity.
Fossil fuel power plants have the big disadvantage of carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is building up in the atmosphere causing global warming.
The opposite of a fossil fuel power plant is a renewable energy power plant, which generates electricity without any harmful carbon dioxide emissions. Renewable energy (solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, biofuel and hydrogen) is being used more and more around the world, replacing old polluting power stations.
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What is the defeniton of a fossil fuel power plant?
A fossil fuel power plant is a system of devices for the conversion of fossil fuel energy to mechanical work or electric energy
Do power plants burn fossil fuels?
Some power plants do. Any plant that burns oil, coal, or gas from underground resources could be considered a "fossil fuel" plant. There are however nuclear, solar, hydro-electric and wind powered power plants.
Is nuclear power a fossil fuel?
Nuclear power is NOT a fossil fuel.
How are a fossil fuel burning power plant and a nuclear plant similar?
They both use steam turbine/generators
How does a nuclear power plant affect the people living around it?
It provides them with power, without polluting the environment like a fossil fuel power plant would.
What is a steam generator used for in a fossil fuel power plant?
To convert the heat of combustion to steam which can be used in an engine.
Compare a power plant that burns fossil fuels with a nuclear power plant?
Both power plants generate electricity, but a fossil fuel power plant burns coal, oil, or gas to produce heat that boils water into steam to drive a turbine, while a nuclear power plant uses nuclear reactions to heat water into steam. Nuclear plants produce no greenhouse gas emissions, while fossil fuel plants do. However, nuclear plants produce radioactive waste that needs to be safely managed for a long time.
How does a power plant transform energy in fossil fuels to electrical energy?
steps for power plant transform fossil fuels
Is solar power an fossil fuel?
no it is not
How does fossil fuel work in a power plant?
Fossil fuel like coal or natural gas is brought to the power plant by trains. Then it is burned to heat water to make steam. The steam is under pressure and it wants to escape, so it is run through a turbine and the power of steam spins the turbine. The spinning turbine runs and electric generator that makes electricity.
What does natural gas devlop into Also where does it come from How is it transported?
Natural Gas develops a fossil fuel. Also it is transported by a power plant.
How is uranium used as a fossil fuel?
Uranium is not a fossil fuel; uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
