How can electricity be made in a power station without burning fuels?

Answer 1

They produce steam at high temperature and pressure which is fed into a steam turbine/generator set. The steam can be raised by fossil fuel (coal, oil, gas) or by nuclear energy.

In Coal or oil-fired power stations, and in most gas-fired power stations, the burning fuel heats water in a boiler. this produces steam. the steam drives a turbine that turns an electricity generator. Coal, oil and gas are fossil fuels, which are fossil fuels obtained from long-dead biological material.

Answer 2

You need a source of heat ( oil, coal , nuclear, gas ), then boil water to produce high pressure steam, control the release of this steam (from beyond) to effect motion in it, put a turbine wheel inbetween to translate into rotary motion of the turbine shaft, connect the shaft to a electric generator.

Answer 3

All electricity that is generated is created by a primary power source. There are many different types of power sources that can be used in a power station, so first let's look at the types of power sources. Much of the electricity generated in the United States uses coal as a primary power source. The coal is burned to create steam. Another source of power is elevated water. As the water falls, energy is created, and this energy can be harnessed as power. Yet another source is nuclear power, which is used to heat water and create steam.

Electricity is generated when the power source turns a series of turbines. These turbines are like jet engines, and they have a series of blades arranged around a centre. When steam is forced through the turbines, they begin to spin. In the same way, falling water from a dam will pass over similar turbines. This also spins the turbines very fast. These turbines are connected to a rotor, which eventually creates electricity.

You may have heard these terms before. The rotor is like a drive shaft, except this shaft has magnets attached to it. It is located inside of a stator, which is a coil of wire. When the turbine spins, this rotor also spins, creating alternating magnetic forces inside the wire coil. This results in electrical current. Once the current is created, it is drawn away from the coil by wires and passed through the distribution system, which usually consists of a transformer and high tension wires.

Answer 4

unfortunately, this is currently impossible, most likely always will be. at the basic level, generating electricity is done by moving electrons from one place to another, and is usually accompanied by a chemical reaction. in wing turbines and other generators, the energy comes from a source of motion such as wind, for example. however, generating energy from wind means we actually remove energy from the moving air, causing it to slow down, which has the potential to wreak all sorts of havoc with the environment, even so far as to influence the earth's rotation, which is what causes wind in the first place. in most generators, coal or natural gas are used, which are burned to generate heat to spin a generator turbine with hot steam. solar cells use a base material that gives off electrons when light hits it, but eventually, the base material wears out and must be replaced, and manufacturing solar cells uses lots of energy and harmful substances. our most promising source of energy right now in terms of sustainability and waste is nuclear fusion. with a relatively small amount of fuel, massive amounts of energy can be collected, and when all the radioactive fuel is used up, there is also very little waste. unfortunately, we do not yet know how to make nuclear fusion, or how to deal with the waste products. nuclear fission, which is different from fusion in that it uses the heat generated from radioactive decay to spin a turbine with steam. we currently have no good way of disposing of the waste products from fission either.

Answer 5

This goes back to basic physics.

When you pass a magnet past a coil of wire, the magnetic field produces a small amount of electrical power. If you do this constantly, then power is constantly generated.

In a power plant, a coil of wire is wrapped around a shaft and rotated through a magnetic field produced by very powerful fixed magnets. This machine is called a generator.

This is how power is generated in wind, coal, gas, nuclear, or hydroelectric power stations. In wind, the velocity of the wind turns a blade the rotates a generators shaft. In hydroelectric, the force of falling water turns the shaft of the generator.

In coal, gas, and nuclear, heat is transferred to water. The water becomes steam, and the steam is used to push blades that rotate the generators shaft. In coal and gas, the heat is generated by combustion. In nuclear, the heat is generated by a nuclear reaction.

Answer 6

you can burn coal oil or naterul gas can burn......

Answer 7

by using solar powered genararors