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How do power stations make energy?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

they burn the fossel fuels which heats the water then the water turns to steam and then the steam is forced through big fans called turbines then it goes to a generator which turns it into electrical energy then it goes to a transformer then to the pylons.

burning the fossel fuels- heat energy/chemical energy

when the steam goes through the turbines-kinetic energy

when it gets to the generator-electrical energy

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