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).
turbines
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).
What is the question?
Hydraulic (water) and Nuclear.
Power plants like Thermal Power Plant burn fossil fuels to heat water and then water turn into steam that creates enough pressure to run the turbines.Turbines rotate and electricity is formed.
Heat from fossil fuels is used to boil water and turn it into steam in order to generate electricty.
water energy
Turbines
turbines
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.
Steam, created by heating water through the burning of fossil fuels or through nuclear reactions.
Steam, created by heating water through the burning of fossil fuels or through nuclear reactions.
The fuel can be fossil fuel, ie coal oil,or natural gas, or it can be uranium in nuclear plants.
Steam, created by heating water through the burning of fossil fuels or through nuclear reactions.
What is the question?
The useful energy we get from fossil fuels and nuclear plants is heat. and heating water to make steam is about the most direct way to capture that thermal energy. Steam is used to spin turbines to turn electric power generators, and that allows us to harness the energy.
Hydraulic (water) and Nuclear.
Solar, Nuclear, Wind, Water, and Fossil Fuel power
As of July 2008, there were more than 430 operating nuclear power plants and, together, they provided about 15 percent of the world's electricity in 2007. Despite all the cosmic energy that the word "nuclear" invokes, power plants that depend on atomic energy don't operate that differently from a typical coal-burning power plant. Both heat water into pressurized steam, which drives a turbine generator. The key difference between the two plants is the method of heating the water. While older plants burn fossil fuels, nuclear plants depend on the heat that occurs during nuclear fission, when one atom splits into two.