 Coal comes in to the plant by barge transportation.  Coal is pushed onto a conveyer, that carries the coal straight into the plant.  The coal is then measured and kept in large areas as they wait to be pulverized  When the coal is in the pulverizing stage, the coal is then smashed into a fine powder. From there heading to the boiler.

 Large fans blow the power coal into the boiler.  The boiler contains lots of quality water, so as soon as the coal is blown in, it ignites.  Once the coal ignites, it releases energy and creates heat. This changes the water inside to hot, then to dry steam.  This is thermal energy, then that is changed to mechanical energy at the turbine

 The turbine takes in the hot steam from the boiler and goes through a journey of blades.  The steam turns the final turbine at 360 revolutions a second, this then provides power the the generator. The generator creates 18 thousand volts of energy.  Then the electricity goes out on its way to is customers.

 The steam left over in the generator blades stages is used again. The steam is drained and condensed back to water. The was water is very hot when brought back to liquid stage so they sent it to a cooling tower, the tallest part of the plant. There the water is cooled and whatever coal is left is gone in the open air roofs. From the there the cooled water repeats the whole thing again.

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