Expect for solar, it’s all just flowy stuff through spinny stuff: wind, water, steam. GRAAAAAAAAAA
Comment on same shit every day, on god
hades@feddit.uk 5 hours agoExcept solar. And wind. And hydro.
xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
rockerface@lemmy.cafe 2 hours ago
Solar is very tiny flowy stuff through very tiny spinny stuff
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 4 hours ago
Good ol’ mill.
fullsquare@awful.systems 50 minutes ago
and fuel cells
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
And wind.
wind is just the effects of premade steam
TachyonTele@piefed.social 5 hours ago
Hydro also uses steam
hades@feddit.uk 5 hours ago
In liquid form?
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Condensed steam.
judgyweevil@feddit.it 5 hours ago
It’s still the same turbine shit
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
It’s all turbines, but quite dissimilar turbines.
JakenVeina@midwest.social 3 hours ago
I dunno if “power plant” quite fits for solar and wind. Definitely for Hydro, though.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
“Power Plant” won’t be a fitting term until we can generate electricity (at a viable scale) from chloroplasts.
dublet@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
I dunno if “power plant” quite fits for solar and wind
Why not?
The First Law of Thermodynamics: Energy Cannot Be Created or Destroyed
Fossil fuel power plants merely convert chemical energy into another type.
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Some solar is also boiling water
voracitude@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
And some of it is boiling salt!
Which then boils water, of course.
But some of it is electrons from photonic impact, no water involved! In the process of energy generation anyway. Statistically and perhaps somewhat ironically, the electrons from that photonic impact may well be used to boil water regardless… Humans just fucking love boiling water.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
:D
Something all the way down something
stormeuh@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
And zapping birds!
Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 hours ago
And some fusion is direct to current in coils. The z-pinch style approaches mainly.