if its just water boiling in a pot,can you just put a Turbine above the pot and use the steam to spin the Turbine?
ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… ~which then gets used to boil water~
I love that deep down, coal, gas, nuclear, this thing… all done to heat water, make steam, use steam to turn turbines…. We are just in a steampunk universe
Solar panel projects, which many have outstripped this and other projects in power limitations, do not boil water to generate electricity.
And wind turbines, and hydroelectric plants.
But all but solar cells are pretty much turbines all the way down
It’s so crazy that we’ve found like six different ways to use rocks to boil water. You’d think there’d just be two or three
I’m gonna need help identifying all of them. So far I have burn them, smush glowing ones together, and reflect radiation with them.
- Coal. Set it on fire, use fire to boil water
- Geothermal. Go down where the rocks are hot, use hot rocks to boil water.
- Nuclear. Magic rocks get hot all by themselves. Use them to boil water.
- Photovoltaics. Shape rocks into solar panels, use solar panels to power stove to boil water.
- Concentrated solar. Use mirrors to reflect sunlight onto salt (a rock). Boil water with hot salt.
- Put water in a glass tube. Use mercury (which comes from a rock) to draw a vacuum. Water boils at room temp under a vacuum.
- Lob a space rock at the planet. Space rock vaporizes everything in a 100 mile radius, including water.
I’m sure we can think of more
Dam. Stack rocks to block water, use leaking water to turn propeller.
I have a theoretical degree in physics
Oh neat like the ones outside Vegas, I always wonder if birds fly into the center
Well they certainly don’t fly out of it
It’s incredibly silly that even tho we advance the scale of power, with electricity, solar and even nuclear, all we use it is to boil water. We just can’t seem to be able t build any a more advanced mechanism, it seems.
Hard to beat spinning a magnet to generate electricity, and it’s hard to beat boiling water to spin a magnet
Fair point magnets are basically a superpower by themselves.
So is water. Hard to beat a miracle fluid that covers most of our planet.
“Worldbuilders hate this trick! Cover most of your world in water so you have less stuff to figure out names for.”
Photovoltaics
Actually if you look inside the cells it’s just a tiny little pocket of boiling water
(it’s not btw, this is satire)
That’s actually what they dope the silicon with, one really angry water molecule.
Never sell proven chemistry or physics short. Water transforming to a vapor is awesome. Maybe we could harness the energy of water transforming to a solid too.
I mean, it… does expand when freezing… so maybe?
I knew what video it was before I clicked, love that guy XD
