Question

What are the disadvantages of thermal power plants?
A. Heavy environmental pollution
B. They need to be set up near coal or oil fields
C. Depletion of ground natural reserves and fossils fuels
D. of the above

Answer 1

Hint: Before attempting this question, one should have prior knowledge about the concept of thermal power plant and also remember that in thermal power plant energy is produced by the heating oil, natural gas which creates smoke while heating, using this information will help you to approach the solution of the question.

Complete answer:
Before approaching the answer of the question let’s discuss the thermal power plants which can be explained as the power station where energy is generated using the fuel like coal, oil, natural gas, etc. this helps steam turbines to function which is to convert heat energy to mechanical energy which is then converted into electrical energy.

There are some disadvantages of thermal power plants which are

Since the thermal plant consist of steam turbine which requires the steam to function which is generated by burning fossils fuels in large amount this is the reason that thermal power plant is constructed near fields of coal or oil due to this the depletion of natural and fossils fuels occur
Since, all the mentioned statements are disadvantages of thermal power plant

So, the correct answer is “Option D”.

Note:
In the above solution we discussed about the disadvantages of thermal power plant which also have some advantages such as the process of generating the electric energy from the thermal power plant is easy, the required fuel to function thermal plant is cheap, this power plant can be constructed anywhere close to the water or fuel supply and the area require to construct the power station is smaller compared to the other power stations.