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Coal is used in furnaces to heat water in a boiler to superheated (above 100 degrees Celsius) temperatures, and this steam is used to drive a turbine which, in turn, drives an alternator.

A hydroelectric plant uses the vertical fall of water to drive a water turbine which drives an alternator.

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