a coal fired power station is a huge hit engine. it uses hit transfer from burning coal to do work to turn turbines , which are use to generate electricity in a single day, a large coal power station has 2.50*10^24 J of hit transfer from coal and 1.48*10^14 J of heat transfer into environment. What is the work  done by the power station? What is the efficiency of power station?

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