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When was Central Electricity Generating Board created?
Central Electricity Generating Board was created in 1957.
How fast does a turbine have to turn to create electricity?
This all depends on firstly how the turbine is built, and how large the turbine is. Please add more detail.
What role do fuel rods play in generating energy?
Fuel rods are the nuclear fuel in a nuclear power plant. They are used to turn water to steam, which is then used to turn a turbine. They do not "generate energy", since energy cannot be created or destroyed (E=mc^2). They are used to generate electricity, or to convert nuclear energy to electric energy.
What is the function of the turbine at grootvlei power station?
Grootvlei is an electricity generating station located in Balfour, South Africa. This station uses coal to power its turbines. The turbines run the generators with a total station output of 1200 megawatts.
What is the name given to electricity generated by water moving through a turbine?
Hydroelectric energy is created by water powering a turbine.
How there are the wind turbine connected to the msin grid?
They're connected by cables. The wind spins the turbine - generating electricity. The electricity is fed into the national grid by cables.
Which is a correct statement of what occurs at a turbine during electricity?
At a turbine, mechanical energy from a rotating shaft is converted into electrical energy as the turbine blades spin within a magnetic field. This process induces current in the wires connected to the turbine, generating electricity.
How do you make electricity out of steam?
There is a type of electrical generating machine called a steam turbine. Steam is used to make the turbine spin. The turbine contains magnets, and the moving magnetic fields, as they intersect wires, generate electricity.
What energy source uses dams?
Hydroelectricity; the process of generating electricity from the force of water moving a turbine.
Which alternative energy resource is used to make electricity in this figure?
The figure likely shows a wind turbine generating electricity from wind energy.
When a wind turbine stops does it stop the electricity?
Yes, when a wind turbine stops turning, it stops generating electricity. Wind turbines require wind to move their blades, which in turn spin a rotor connected to a generator to produce electricity. Without wind, the turbine cannot generate power.
Does the Crist power plant produce electricity by burning coal to create steam to power a turbine?
Yes the James F. Crist Generating Plant located in Pensacola, Florida burns coal to both heat and turn water into steam which is used to turn a turbine connected to an electrical generator which produces the electricity. It's total generating capacity is 970,000 KW, and it has four (4) generating units.
How do windmills work without electricity?
Soo there is a turbine in the center of the rotating part, so when the wind make the three spikes rotate, the turbine spins generating electricity. It makes electricity; it doesnt need it. The turbine king of works like a rotor or if you know anything about hyropower elctricity then you know about the turbine that spins when water falls. So basically in windmills, the wind causes the spikes to turn making the turbine work generating power... hope it helps...:)
What is the role of the steam in a nuclear power plant?
It Powers the Huge turbine that produces electricity.
What are the advantages of generating electricity by wind turbines compared with generating it at an oil-fired power station?
wind turbines have blades like the propellors on the first aeroplanes wind turbines with blades convert 20-30% of wind energy into electricity but this new turbine can convert 70%.
How do waterfalls produce electricity?
Build a turbine at the bottom and the rotation of the turbine generates the electricity.
How does thermal energy cause generators to make electricity?
Heat converts water into steam generating enough pressure to drive a turbine mechanically attached to an electric generator.
