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same shit every day, on god (mander.xyz)
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[–] 2 points 10 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 10 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 10 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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