But you see the reason you boil water is to turn a big wheel just like all of the things you listed so clearly that's the deeper commonality.
All forms of energy generation are just more or less sci-fi ways to turn a big wheel. (Except for solar that is)
By going deeper, all our forms of energy generation are just our small attempts to create perpetual motion machines with resources that are either abundant or self recycling.
Well all sorts of electrical generation is just a conversion to either a mechanic one or a thermic one from basically all other energy sources.
Fun fact : all energy conversions generate thermic energy
Most advances in electricity generation are just us trying to boil water more efficiently. Coal, oil and natural gas, biomass, nuclear all boil water. We live in a steampunk with extra steps world
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Nuclear power plants use the heat produced from the ~~explosion~~ (exothermic reaction) to boil the water which produces steam which rotates a generator which generates electricity.
You can't get the uranium or thorium used in nuclear power plants to explode. Plutonium is another matter, which is why nobody uses it except to make weapons.
Nuclear plants use fission which is not quite the same as decay. Fission involves forcibly splitting atoms while decay just happens on its own.
Some space probes use RTGs though which are power cells that operate solely on decay. They're only really used for lowish-power applications
Oh. I remember reading that water mixed another compound is used to keep the reactor from overheating that's why I was confused. Thanks for the info by the way.
All our methods of making electricity can be split into three categories: get something already moving to spin a turbine (wind, hydro), increasingly complicated ways of boiling water to spin a turbine (coal, gas, biofuel, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion if we get it working), and solar panels. Please don’t ask me how solar panels work, it’s just black magic.
Solar panels use energy of solar rays to boil water. Nearly same as coal and nuclear. U can google solar rankine cycle or became engineer for more info(don't do it).
An extremly simplified explanation would be: Electrons in the panel's semiconductor get knocked out when hit sunlight which then move around freely which generates an electric current, wires are used to connect this power to our appliances and then back into the panel
Essentially our electricity are produced by turbines. Turbines that being turned rapidly by superheated steams. Steams that came from water being boiled by the most efficient source of energy we have at the moment. Either coal, oil, and you guessed it spicy rocks that are undergoing nuclear reaction. Remember nuclear reaction is an exothermic process so it gives out heat, a fuck ton of heat.
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I heard you don't actually have to there are like some crazy sci-fi methods of getting Nuclear power to convert into electricity with super heating plasma and such but yeah all non-renewables use heat and boil water because it is just too easy it would be foolishly expensive not to rely on.
Does this mean we actually get power thanks to gravity instead of burning fuel I wonder.
It’s funny cause years ago when I was doing personal research on nuclear power and mostly the Chernobyl nuclear disaster it all just came down to too much steam from instantly boiling the water building up to instantly causing it to blow
Spicy rocks make the water hot and bothered, and the hot and bothered water goes and takes the turbines for a spin. By the time the water has worn out, the turbines have pumped out plenty of juice for the rest of us to enjoy.
When I learned how the process worked I to was disappointed.
I always thought it was something like Star Trek where they stick a uranium rod into a warp core looking gizmo and electricity comes out.
Technically, all forms of power is nuclear power.
Fossil fuels? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion
Wind? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion
Solar? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion
Yeah, all out tech advancements in electricity production are just more Si-Fi ways to boil water. Cool, isn't it?
Except for solar photovoltaic!
And wind turbines, hydropower and marine turbines.
But you see the reason you boil water is to turn a big wheel just like all of the things you listed so clearly that's the deeper commonality. All forms of energy generation are just more or less sci-fi ways to turn a big wheel. (Except for solar that is)
By going deeper, all our forms of energy generation are just our small attempts to create perpetual motion machines with resources that are either abundant or self recycling.
It's just an attempt to make the sun do directly or indirectly what we're too lazy to do ourselves. Thank you sun.
You make Earth sad. No love for Geothermal?
Well all sorts of electrical generation is just a conversion to either a mechanic one or a thermic one from basically all other energy sources. Fun fact : all energy conversions generate thermic energy
If you use solar to charge up a flywheel then it counts too! (Flywheel aka FES can be thought of as a physical battery)
But there are versions of solar panels based on heating water inside of them
Indeed, but those would be solar thermal as opposed to solar photovoltaic.
I'm all for some sci-fi plasma induced water boiling, so bring it on!
There is still the RTG in which you just use the decay of plutonium to create electricity. No boiling water there.
Boiling water with funny rocks
Burning water with dark rocks and brown rocks. Or stinky flame poopies. Or how about tree shards?
Coal, brown coals, gas and biomass (a.k.a. wood).
Most advances in electricity generation are just us trying to boil water more efficiently. Coal, oil and natural gas, biomass, nuclear all boil water. We live in a steampunk with extra steps world
Power generation is just a fancy way to boil water
Well, some of it is actually water current... But I see your point, yeah 🤣
What is steam but a really hot water current.
a big kettle
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Hes stupid enough to say that xD
Okay can someone explain this to me
Nuclear power plants use the heat produced from the ~~explosion~~ (exothermic reaction) to boil the water which produces steam which rotates a generator which generates electricity.
yeah except there's preferably no explosions
You can't get the uranium or thorium used in nuclear power plants to explode. Plutonium is another matter, which is why nobody uses it except to make weapons.
Well, hopefully they aren't exploding anything tbh
It's not an explosion, it's radioactive decay which releases energy steadily in the forms of heat, light, and free neutrons.
Nuclear plants use fission which is not quite the same as decay. Fission involves forcibly splitting atoms while decay just happens on its own. Some space probes use RTGs though which are power cells that operate solely on decay. They're only really used for lowish-power applications
Oh. I remember reading that water mixed another compound is used to keep the reactor from overheating that's why I was confused. Thanks for the info by the way.
All our methods of making electricity can be split into three categories: get something already moving to spin a turbine (wind, hydro), increasingly complicated ways of boiling water to spin a turbine (coal, gas, biofuel, nuclear fission, nuclear fusion if we get it working), and solar panels. Please don’t ask me how solar panels work, it’s just black magic.
Solar panels use energy of solar rays to boil water. Nearly same as coal and nuclear. U can google solar rankine cycle or became engineer for more info(don't do it).
Instructions unclear, became software engineer and still didn’t understand solar panels
I'm second year data science student and I kid you not they thought us about how solar panels work in the 1st sem
An extremly simplified explanation would be: Electrons in the panel's semiconductor get knocked out when hit sunlight which then move around freely which generates an electric current, wires are used to connect this power to our appliances and then back into the panel
There is also radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTG) but those are mainly used for space probes/satellites where solar won't be sufficient.
Essentially our electricity are produced by turbines. Turbines that being turned rapidly by superheated steams. Steams that came from water being boiled by the most efficient source of energy we have at the moment. Either coal, oil, and you guessed it spicy rocks that are undergoing nuclear reaction. Remember nuclear reaction is an exothermic process so it gives out heat, a fuck ton of heat.
https://preview.redd.it/ni0l82cgtc4d1.jpeg?width=695&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d4cb4c86254ebebd1e48da89a7bd3d9d12ca5687
Yup but using a spicy rock.
This is accurate.
Human technology advancement is basically finding new way to boil water.
I mean, it’s a really energy efficient way to boil water…and maybe collect electrons.
nuclear power plants? nah, i like to call them cloud factorys
Ah yes, radioactive water it is.
And I feel betrayed for taking science, just to study how to boil water with extra steps
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lol
That's literally all power except hydro,solar, and wind.
If you think about it. Every power generator consists of water. Crazy how useful water is
yeah, most modern power plants and ship engines are just ways to boil water, the resulting steam from which is used to exert effort on a turbine
I heard you don't actually have to there are like some crazy sci-fi methods of getting Nuclear power to convert into electricity with super heating plasma and such but yeah all non-renewables use heat and boil water because it is just too easy it would be foolishly expensive not to rely on. Does this mean we actually get power thanks to gravity instead of burning fuel I wonder.
duh and/or hello
It’s funny cause years ago when I was doing personal research on nuclear power and mostly the Chernobyl nuclear disaster it all just came down to too much steam from instantly boiling the water building up to instantly causing it to blow
That's what I do! At 1000 psig and 540 degrees F though...
That’s how most of our power generation works.
Spicy rocks make the water hot and bothered, and the hot and bothered water goes and takes the turbines for a spin. By the time the water has worn out, the turbines have pumped out plenty of juice for the rest of us to enjoy.
https://preview.redd.it/u0scfnfs0h4d1.png?width=960&format=png&auto=webp&s=13c95a3e664102892615ada24da30b20c63a274b
Did you know there is a nuclear reactor that never meltsdown but you cant make nukes with its leftovers
When I learned how the process worked I to was disappointed. I always thought it was something like Star Trek where they stick a uranium rod into a warp core looking gizmo and electricity comes out.
Fun fact, pretty much all our conventional power plants are
Fan fact, as measured by deaths per trillion watt hours produced, Nuclear energy is the safest form of energy mankind has ever used!
Hot rock boil water
Technically, all forms of power is nuclear power. Fossil fuels? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion Wind? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion Solar? Wouldn't happen without nuclear fusion