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How is electricity made from oil?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

In exactly the same way as from wood, coal, and natural gas. Burn the fuel, use

the heat to boil water, shoot the steam through the vanes of a turbine to spin the

electric generator.

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