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partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Hydro isn’t. Nor is solar photo voltaic, wind, or tidal, but yeah, nearly everything else is. In a combined-cycle natural gas or diesel plant half of the power generated isn’t steam power, but the other half is.

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fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨32⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
for ccgt it’s more like 2/3 for gas turbine, 1/3 for steam turbine split, even more uneven for diesel/steam because diesel exhaust is much colder

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imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Hydro is liquid steam

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- Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Molten ice.
  
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- thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  aah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water.
  
  smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?
  
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  - baines@lemmy.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    boiling just makes the water move, hydro just cheats
    
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  - JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Electromagnetic induction.
    
    Basically electric motor in reverse…instead of electricity powering the motor, the motor powers electricity.
    
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