I actually don’t know why people get so hung up on this. When you are making energy it’s easiest to make heat, and boiling water through a turbine is a really efficient way to turn heat into motion and we’re really good at doing it and turning motion into electricity. The fact that multiple ways of making heat exist is not surprising, the fact that different methods of making heat use the same, most efficient, well understood method for turning heat into electricity is even less surprising.
If we develop a more efficient way to turn heat into electricity it won’t be “a new way to make energy” it will be “a new more efficient heat engine”
“I have an idea for a comic!”
“Is it you getting angry and sulking on the couch?”
Nuclear power is just steampunk with magic rocks.
The idea …
Send water on a 150 million kilometer pipeline to the sun to super heat it … then pipe the steam back to power a turbine
The pipe can double as a space elevator
What if the pipeline already existed… But it was made of light
Baby Dyson Sphere go brrr
Dyson Straw.
Where wind
Step 1: boil the ocean
Isn’t that was unchecked capitalism is already doing?
It’s also due to water being boiled. Just in a different, many steps removed manner.
Boiling water, obviously!
The new supercritical CO2 generators are pretty cool. Pretty much the same thing but no water!
Those systems are interesting, but also nightmares to build and maintain.
Supercritical co2 is a powerful solvent and can corrode most metals.this problem is worse when you increase the temperature.
Material scientists are working on it, but so far, the few test systems that have been built can’t quite live up to the hype.
Well when you invent a new way to convert rotational energy into multi-phase AC please let us all know
Turbine go vrrrrrr
Boil water and spin magnets
