Most Power Stations Use Steam to Drive a Turbine

Question 1

What is the most electricity we used generated from?

Answer 1

The four non-renewable source of energy in big power stations

Question 2

What happens as the fossil fuels burns (in oxygen)?

Answer 2

The energy is transferred to the thermal energy store of the water by heating

Question 3

What does the water boil to form?

Answer 3

Steam, which turns a turbine, transferring energy mechanically to the kinetic energy store of the turbine

Question 4

What happens as the turbine revolves?

Answer 4

So does the generator, which produces an electric current

Question 5

How and where does the generator transfer energy?

Answer 5

Electrically away from the power station, via the national grid