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A fossil fuel power plant is a factory that generates electricity, sells it to the power companies, and they sell it to us.
Power plants burn fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) to turn water into steam. This steam is used to spin the electricity turbines, generating electricity.
Fossil fuel power plants have the big disadvantage of carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon dioxide (CO2) is building up in the atmosphere causing global warming.
The opposite of a fossil fuel power plant is a renewable energy power plant, which generates electricity without any harmful carbon dioxide emissions. Renewable energy (solar, wind, water, hydro, tidal and wave, geothermal, ocean thermal, biomass, biofuel and hydrogen) is being used more and more around the world, replacing old polluting power stations.
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What is the defeniton of a fossil fuel power plant?
A fossil fuel power plant is a system of devices for the conversion of fossil fuel energy to mechanical work or electric energy
What is the difference between the way a fossil fuel power point generates electricity and the way a nuclear power plant generates electricity?
A fossil fuel power plant burns coal, oil, or natural gas to heat water and produce steam, which turns a turbine connected to a generator to produce electricity. In contrast, a nuclear power plant uses nuclear reactions to heat water and produce steam to turn the turbine and generator. Nuclear power plants do not emit greenhouse gases during operation, while fossil fuel power plants do.
What is a steam generator used for in a fossil fuel power plant?
To convert the heat of combustion to steam which can be used in an engine.
Compare a power plant that burns fossil fuels with a nuclear power plant?
Power plants that burn fossil fuels and nuclear power plants are very similar in their manner of creating steam. The main difference between the two types of power plants are that fossil fuel plants emit more pollution.
Is nuclear power a fossil fuel?
No, nuclear power is not a fossil fuel. Fossil fuels are formed from the remains of living organisms over millions of years, while nuclear power is generated by splitting atoms in a process called nuclear fission.
Do power plants burn fossil fuels?
Some power plants do. Any plant that burns oil, coal, or gas from underground resources could be considered a "fossil fuel" plant. There are however nuclear, solar, hydro-electric and wind powered power plants.
Is solar power an fossil fuel?
no it is not
How is uranium used as a fossil fuel?
Uranium is not a fossil fuel; uranium is used as nuclear fuel for nuclear power reactors.
Is a fossil fuel power station sustainable?
No
Is hydro power considered a fossil fuel?
No no its not
What is the efficiency of a fossil fuel power plant?
The efficiency of a coal burning power plant is between 35% and 40%. This means that 40% of the energy is used to make electricity and the other 60% is wasted on heat and pollution through cooling towers and smoke stacks. This is the same efficiency that we had in the 1950s.
Fossil fuel created from plant deposits?
Coal, maybe?
