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===Power===
: [[Crude Oil]] can be used to provide [[power]] directly buy burning it in homes, cars, trains. planes and in furnaces or it can provide power by generating [[electricity]].
: A [[Crude Oil]] [[Power Station]] [[Energy Transfer|transfers]] [[energy]] from the [[Chemical Potential Energy Store|chemical potential energy store]] of the [[Crude Oil]] to our homes by [[electricity]].
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: 1. Crude Oil is burned in a furnace.
: 2. Water is heated in a boiler by the burning oil.
: 3. Water turns to steam and passes down pipes to turn a turbine.
: 4. The turbine causes a generator to spin.
: 5. The generator makes an electrical current.
====Advantages====
*Can work continuously.
*Power supply can be varied depending on demand.
*Few power stations needed to supply a large number of houses.
====Disadvantages====
*Cost of fuel.
*Produce Carbon Dioxide contributing to global warming.
*Other pollutants produced which can harm health or produce acid rain.
*Crude Oil will run out.