The capacity of each steam turbines has more than 530 GW in over 6000 installed units. The steam turbines provide high reliability and sustained high efficiency.
Anything, including a person or a machine, that can turn a generator will cause the generator to make electricity. Most commonly generators are turned by water turbines, wind turbines, gasoline or petrol engines, diesel engines or steam engines.
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Steam turbines, which then themselves turn generators.Nearly every method for generating electricity at commercial scales uses turbines at some point (though they may be wind, steam, or water turbines).
Gas turbines are typically much smaller and therefore cheaper. Also, steam turbines require a long time for the fuel (coal, oil, uranium) to heat up the water and so changes in power output are slow. Gas turbines rely partly on the burning and instant expansion of gases, meaning that turbines start and stop much faster.
Steam turbines are external combustion engines.
moisture present in steam due to quality of steam.
J. Kenneth Salisbury has written: 'Steam turbines and their cycles' -- subject(s): Steam-turbines
steam turbines and gas turbines
George Julian Meyers has written: 'Steam turbines' -- subject(s): Steam-turbines, Marine engines
G. Bauer has written: 'Marine steam turbines' -- subject(s): Accessible book, Marine engines, Steam-turbines
The steam can be used to turn a generator's turbines and make electricity.