At present coal is the most common food of a steam plant.

目前，煤是蒸汽动力厂的最常用的能源。

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The steam is then used to drive a steam turbine, as in a normal steam plant.

然后这些蒸汽用来推动蒸汽涡轮机，就像一般的蒸汽动力装置一样。

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Unfortunately this early plant experienced the problem common to many forms of renewable energy: the flow in the Wey River was unreliable, and the waterwheel was soon replaced by a steam engine.

不幸的是，这个早期的工厂遇到了许多可再生能源形态都遇到的问题：韦河的水流不稳定，而水车很快就被蒸汽机取代了。

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Now, if you're an engineer, and you use the ideal gas law to design a chemical plant or a boiler or an electrical plant, you know, a steam plant, you're going to be in big trouble.

比如说锅炉，蒸汽机,我们会遇到一个大问题：,我们设计的机器将无法运作，因为对大部分实际气体。

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So, they're trying to make sure that that's taken care of first, because that steam plant does give power to millions of people all over east Tennessee, even Georgia, Alabama that area.

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At full steam, the plant would be capable of producing its specialized solar collectors at a rate of 400 megawatts per year.

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That plant relies on steam and power from Grangemouth, which the union may no longer be prepared to supply.

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