Seebeck generators
except for solar and wind, i guess. also the thingy where you catch electrons directly from nuclear decay.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 8 hours ago
except for solar and wind, i guess. also the thingy where you catch electrons directly from nuclear decay.
Seebeck generators
j4yc33@piefed.social 14 hours ago
There are also some chemical modes of electricity generation (Alkalai batteries, etc). Also using flowing water to move Turbines like dams.
But then the meme isn’t as fun here, and those are such a small minority of how we generate powers.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Even then all of them but solar are just spinning a wheel.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
And even then some solar works by boiling salt… Or water.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 5 hours ago
You could maybe catch lightning and store it. That’s not boiling water … what’s that? It is boiling water?
bort@sopuli.xyz 5 minutes ago
I wouldn’t be surprised, it it turns out, when the most efficient way to turn lightning into electricity, was to redirect it into a boiler, instead of harvesting it directly