As in a conventional fossil fuel or nuclear power plant, that
steam spins turbines, which generate electricity.
Not exact matches
The cumulative heat from this process boils water into
steam, which
spins a
turbine to create electricity.
Most systems use a heat exchanger to boil clean water for
steam to
spin a
turbine.
Reciprocating
steam engines simply could not produce enough
spinning power to deliver the smooth current necessary to make large - scale electricity grids feasible; by the early 1900s,
turbines had made them a reality.
Hot rocks at depth boil the water into
steam, which rises back to the surface to
spin a
turbine and generate electricity.
After geothermal power plants pump up a hot brine — water and dissolved salts from underground — and use its heat to make
steam to
spin a
turbine and generate electricity, Simbol would borrow the still warm fluid for roughly 90 minutes.
Today's nuclear power plants use the heat from uranium fission reactions to do nothing more complicated than boil water, making pressurized
steam that
spins turbines to generate electricity.
When electricity is needed, the molten salt is pumped through a heat exchanger to turn water into
steam that
spins a
turbine to generate electricity.
Organic materials are processed and burned to create
steam to
spin a
turbine that generates electricity.
More than 170,000 mirrors will gather tremendous amounts of sunlight and focus it on three towers filled with water, raising temperatures to more than 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit and producing
steam that
spins turbines that generate electricity.
In most power plants, water cools the
steam that
spins the electricity - generating
turbines.
Today, no matter the type of power plant, almost all electricity is made by heating water to make
steam and using that
steam to
spin a generator's
turbine.
In turn, this creates
steam that
spins a
turbine that generates electricity.