ElI5:how can someone make electricity out of Fire??

Question

ElI5:how can someone make electricity out of Fire??

In: Physics

Answer 1

Fire burns stuff and in the process produces heat.

The heat can be used to do things like boil water.

Boiling water gets you steam, steam pushes a turbine and the turbine creates electricity.

Turbines work on the same principle as electro motors just in the opposite direction.

This is the basic principle of power plants that burn coal or oil or tother stuff to create electricity. In fact even nuclear power plants use this method, but instead of fire they use radioactive materials that get hot.