If you have never seen a power plant, you might find it hard to imagine how enormously complex the equipment is or how much heat is generated by the boilers or how much coal it takes to fuel the furnaces for just one day.
During the course of a day, the boilers at one of our power plants, Morgantown, for example, can turn 24 million gallons of water into steam. That generating plant alone uses 9,900 tons of coal in its furnaces in just one day. Potomac Electric Power Company (PEPCO) uses so much coal that we have purchased two 80-car unit trains to facilitate the delivery process. And Morgantown alone can produce over 25 million kilowatthours of electricity in a single day’s operation.
Electricity is produced by spinning large magnets inside a coil of wire within the generator. The faster we spin the magnets, the higher will be the voltage of the electricity produced. Electricity leaves a PEPCO generator at between 13,800 and 24,000 volts.
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My new home was a long way from the
centre of London but it was becoming essential to find a job, so finally I spent
a whole morning getting to town and putting my name down to be considered by
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drivers. This suited me. I couldn’t drive a car but thought that I could
probably guard a train, and perhaps continue to write my poems between stations.
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see myself being cheerful, useful, a good man in a crisis. Obviously I would be
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a long way from the city A. he could no longer afford to live without one B. he wanted to work in the centre of London C. he had received suitable training D. he was not interested in any other available job [单项选择]The executive political power of New Zealand is exercised mainly by the______.
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