~~Nuclear~~ power is just boiling water
this post was submitted on 14 Nov 2024
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I bet there is a way more efficient way to harness it that we are just missing too lol
I'm kinda surprised that nobody has harnessed our magnetic field to build a power source. Or at least tried. I have no idea how it could work, and I may be dumb as shit for this. But I feel like it could be possible if we had another 500 years left of society.
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Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.
I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.
Wind turbines also.
But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.
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There are gas turbine generators that directly use shaft power to generate electricity
Yeah, who would have guessed that modernity was invented by someone who stuck magnets to a fidget spinner and strapped it to a boiler.
One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine
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God damnit Jinyang!
Errich, is the refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt, and he's a rich.
Eric Bachman, this is your mother. You are not my son.
"This is you as an old man. I'm ugly and dead alone."
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There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.
Some work went into fission designs as well.
Nuclear power is the refining distilling and enriching of uranium into unstable isotopes and higher elements, boiling water is one small step in converting nuclear energy into electrical energy.
But it’s one of the most important steps because it’s where the actual electricity comes from.
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And then there are thermonuclear generators
I heard that somewhere in the US there were parts of a nuclear power plant being delivered by steam train. So that’s basically one steam engine supplying another! (^^,)
I can’t seem to find an article about it anywhere, so it might be an urban legend :(
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