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Tours of power plants. How do you make electricity from coal: A great 10-minute animation from FirstEnergy and EDP Video explains the various stages in energy production and has lots of interesting facts and statistics. There's a good explanation of how cooling towers work and why power plants now use smokestack scrubbers to reduce air pollution.

Coal-fired plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to produce steam. The steam produced, under tremendous pressure, flows into a turbine, which spins a generator to create electricity. The steam is then cooled, condensed back into water and returned to the boiler to start the process over.

Coal fired power plants are a type of power plant that make use of the combustion of coal in order to generate electricity. Their use provides around 40% of the world's electricity and they are primarily used in developing countries.

A fossil fuel power station is a power station which burns a fossil fuel such as coal, natural gas, or petroleum to produce electricity. Central station fossil fuel power plants are designed on a large scale for continuous operation.

A coal-fired power plant generates electricity similar to most power plants but with coal as the source of heat to boil the water. To burn coal it must first be pulverized to a fine dust that is blown into the boiler and ignited.

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Coal power plants and gas or oil fired power plants burn a fuel to generate heat. A nuclear power plant carries out a controlled nuclear reaction that generates heat and a solar thermoelectric power plant uses solar radiation to heat a fluid.

Coal power plants and gas or oil fired power plants burn a fuel to generate heat. A nuclear power plant carries out a controlled nuclear reaction that generates heat and a solar thermoelectric power plant uses solar radiation to heat a fluid.

Coal-fired plants produce electricity by burning coal in a boiler to produce steam. The steam produced, under tremendous pressure, flows into a turbine, which spins a generator to create electricity. The steam is then cooled, condensed back into water and returned to the boiler to start the process over.

Producing electricity from coal starts when the coal is pulverised in huge mills into a fine powder before it is blown into huge kettles, called boilers. Due to the heat in the boiler, the coal particles combust and burn to generate heat to turn water into steam.

A coal-fired power plant generates electricity similar to most power plants but with coal as the source of heat to boil the water. To burn coal it must first be pulverized to a fine dust that is blown into the boiler and ignited.