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same shit every day, on god (mander.xyz)
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[–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Now here’s an idea - we boil the water to turn turbines, and then have the steam collect and pool in an upper chamber before running through another turbine into the first boiling chamber below?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm talking about pumped hydro power. It's all the excitement of using water to turn turbines(as it's released to gravity), but none of the boiling.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Oh, I understood - your comment g actually triggered a curiosity in me as to why we don’t combine the two methods (boiling and falling) to “double-dip” on electricity production.

    I’m sure there are plenty of practical reasons why not, but I genuinely don’t know.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Well if you remember from school, energy is defined as the capacity to do work. And if the rising steam does the work of turning a turbine, it'll have a lot less kinetic energy left afterwards and won't rise nearly as far.

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