Sentences with phrase «then turns a turbine»

They function by heating water to create steam, which then turns turbines, generating electricity.

The steam then turns a turbine and generates electricity.

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Everyone knows that wind turbine which are built on the most windy cost will end up standing still for maybe 50 % of the time, I have a large wind farm next to me right now it's windy and two out of the twelve turbines are turning, most days we have one turning and I've yet to see more then four turning.

Fill the cavern with high - pressure gas and then at night release it again to get a high - pressure gas that turns the turbine that creates energy — electricity.

So during the day you compress gas, and then at night, you release the gas and the gas turns the turbines and you produce electricity.

Hot steam can then be made to turn turbines without losing too much of the original absorbed solar energy.

In the «power tower», potassium and sodium nitrate salts are heated to 565 °C and then pass through a heat exchanger where they turn water into steam to drive turbines in the 19.9 megawatt plant.

If your pinwheel were a wind turbine, and spinning counterclockwise turned wind energy into electrical energy, then it would most efficiently produce electricity when wind blows directly into the cups.

This heat is then passed to a separate, secondary cooling circuit in which water is turned to steam to drive the turbines and generators.

The heat turns the water to pressurized steam, which is then used to turn generator - turbines in order to produce electricity.

Generating electricity has an amazing starter and practical requiring students to get a foil turbine to turn using certain apparatus then relating it to the parts in a power station.

APS» Solana Generating Station, near Gila Bend, is a 280 MW Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) power plant that includes storage, providing up to 6 hours of electricity after the sun sets by using molten salt to store heat, which then turns a steam turbine.

When you drive past an area one day where you observe hundreds and hundreds of giant wind turbines slowly turning, then on the next day you drive...

This heated fluid is then used to turn water into steam, which drives a turbine and generates electricity [FIGURE 2].

Solar thermal generation is where the reflectors are concentrated on a central receiver which then heats a liquid such as sodium, which in turn heats the water to generate steam that drives a turbine coupled to a generator.

It gets burned, which turns water into steam, which drives turbines, which then generate electricity.

With this water can be heated to between 500ºC and 2000ºC turning the water into steam which can then drive a steam turbine and produce electricity.

Each time someone turns on the water to shower, wash dishes, or flush the toilet, the flow of water through the plumbing is used to turn the turbine, which then converts the motion into electrical current.