how do they make electricity from the oil found underground?

Question

i sorta know how they make gasoline from it, but how is it used to make energy?

Answer 1

All electricity is created from spinning a coil within a magnetic field. This is generally done via a steam engine approach. Water has to be heated and oil burns to generate this heat to move the coil. Nuclear power is the same. Nuclear rods heat up and boil water, another version of the steam engine.

So you see, we humans are not so advanced afterall as our energy is created from technologies discovered long ago.

Answer 2

Oil, coal, and natural gas are burned in an internal combustion engine to produce the horsepower needed to spin elctrical generators.

An electrical generator is like a motor in reverse: As you spin a copper wire in a magnetic field you induce a current to flow in it. The engine spins the armature of the generator and that spin induces the current to flow thereby creating electricity. Engines used to power generators are typically diesel type engines that can use a lower grade of fuel than gasoline engines.
Approximately 80 percent of the electricity used in the USA is created from buring oil coal and natural gas, the so-called "fossil fuels". You can get this info at the CIA world factbook online at CIA.gov

Answer 3

The oil is burned to heat water into steam which is then used to turn a turbine which generates electricity. When you get down to it, virtually methods of generating electricity (except for solar) involve turning a turbine - whether it's wind or water to actually do the turning or using heat to generate steam which then does the turning.

Answer 4

They Burn it.
But they don't just use oil they use fossil fuels.
When generating electricity, energy from the combustion of fossil fuels is often used to power a turbine. Older generators often used steam generated by the burning of the fuel to turn the turbine, but in newer power plants the gases produced by burning of the fuel turn a gas turbine directly.

Answer 5

Huge generators generate electricity. And these generators are driven by Turbine Engines that use coal, natural gas, oil or a nuclear reactor / steam / water ( Hydroelectric dams ) and even wind. All these are ENERGY themselves, it only that they are being covert form one form to another. So that they can be use in different ways.

Answer 6

The oil is used as fuel for steam boilers, and the steam generated is used to drive turbine generators. Some boilers are designed to operate on crude oil, so that refinement is not necessary. I don't know if they get complete combustion in this type of boiler.

Answer 7

Oil can be burned (as can coal) to heat a boiler, which is connected to a steam turbine, which turns a generator. Voila! You have electricity.

Answer 8

they burn it to boil water to make steam to turn turbines which generate electricity