>2026>we're still boiling water to generate electricity
they kill anyone who finds out about free energy and no one does a thing about it
Why not just use giant magnifying glasses to boil it?
Didn't you make a thread recently about being disappointed that nuclear facilities just boil water?Get over it man. Life is just really mundane usually.
>>108880302That is actually a thing in some desert places but I guess it's not cost effective enough.
>>108880285as a kid I always thought the atom shit happens inside those tall funny towers
technically you use a liquid turning into gas to transfer heat energy into mechanical energy via turbines which is turned into electricity using magnetsWater is used since its abundant and has good properties.Theres also solar panels which turn sunrays into electricitytheres wind power where wind mechanical energy is turned into electricity.Theres hydro power where water generates elecricity thanks to gravity.
Metals, especially copper, has a lot of "loose" electrons in it. Electrons have an electric charge to them. When a lot of electrons move in one direction, that creates a moving electric charge, which is the definition of electricity.How do you move these electrons? Well it involves spinning a magnet or something, because electrons are affected by magnets too so you can crank a magnet to make the electrons move down the copper wire. How do you spin the magnet? People came up with like 100 billion creative solutions. Wind turbines use wind to spin it, hydrowheels use water to spin the wheel to spin the magnet, a mechanical hand crank flashlight uses your own slave labor to spin the magnet, a hamster running on the wheel spins the magnet, boiling water to create steam that pushes a steam turbine to spin the magnet. Etc. Gasoline cars can charge their own batteries because the same thing that spins the wheel also spins the alternator or whatever it's called that spins the magnet and cars recharge their own battery when the engine is on, but not if you leave your lights on and the engine is off. Lol.
>>108880369lol.
there should be a machine that turns stupidity into electricity.
>>108880285>>108880302We tried melting salt in the middle of the desert but it turned out to not work as well as boiling water. (dirty little secret: molten salt reactors still end up boiling water)
>>108880285Reddit coded thread
>>108880385It's not really boiling water it's mostly just any creative way to scrape the electrons out of metal. Metals are easiest for this because they have a lot of electrons that are usually "loose" and easier to scrape out. And that usually involves using the fact that electrons are affected by magnets, you just have to find a way to spin the magnet to create a magnetic field to push the electrons through the wire. People have already thought of like every possible cost effective way to automatically spin something at this point more ways than just boiling water and using the steam to spin the wheel, lol.
>>108880315Photovoltaic has become so cheap everyone is just building those. I don't think solar thermal was ever a competitive thing outside green subsidies.
The enthalpy of vaporization of water is very high and it's abundant
... you boil your water?
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>>108880285Water is the most effective material to store most amount of heat. Primary school taught us that.
We could have cheap energy for most of the day if solar updraft tower and battery technology had the proper investment.
>>108880563silicone and copper you need to put in those cds probably cost more then energy they can produce
>>108880650I would assume the point is to demystify the technology since things capture suns rays besides bespoke materials from china
>>108880285People are working on using supercritical CO2 instead (also with a turbine). Heat energy is just the lowest form of energy (that is what Everything turns into if you leave it alone).We still haven't found a more efficient way to use a heat gradient for generating power. Thermal energy is just difficult to access because of thermodynamics (statistics).
>>108880477>>108880491Oy vey
>>108880504I don't think the goal is storage. mineral oil blows water away in that regard. I think their goal is to transfer energy.
>>108880548bepis :DDDDDD
>>108880285Well we're really close to boiling CO2 to generate it. Give it 10 or so years.
>>108880563The funniest part of these videos is when they use white hand stock photos in the thumbnail and the second you turn on the video you get jumpscared by brown hands with really gnarly nails. Every time.
What if we use the heat from data centers to boil water to generate electricity?
>>108880865We already if it's viable. Honestly it's usually an issue of economics. There tons of places in the world where they gas off the natural gas because they can't capture it so they just burn it off. You could literally run normal turbines and burn it to make electricity. Also people forget GAS is not used to heat water, it's used to drive turbines directly to make electricity.
>>108880285I think it's amazing the boiling water meme spawned supercritical CO2 power generation. Meme magic truly is amazing
>>108880302See >>108880399By the time it was built, Photovoltaics passed it in kWh/$
>>108880504No, it's not. It's good but it's certainly not the best.
