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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/60548872
I know it's a comic but I'm tired of this. The high heat capacity and abundance of water make it excellent for energy transfer. But it's not the source of energy. The source is what distinguishes different types of generators, not the engineering logistics of transfer.
look into reactor
it's boiling water
Back when electric cars were uncool, BMW tried adding a little bit of steam to their cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosteamer
Anything to avoid giving up the toxic unreliable rube-goldbergian fossil-fueled mess, anything but the beautiful simplicity of electricity.
Okay. But did it have one of those steam whistles, like on the old railroad? I feel like it would have done better on the market with a nice choo choo.
YOU JUST GAVE ME THE BEST WORST IDEA
what if we built a teensy helios 1 on top of a car to boil water while driving. like a mr fusion. we could have espresso!
Something something turbine something electricity something.
You can try supercritical CO2 now if you don't like water.
But supercritical CO2 is just CO2 you tricked into acting kinda like water sometimes
No, hamster wheel.
Still only spin generator like all other except photo.
Bro just plug your phone into the uranium rod directly. Checkmate power company.
how's my phone gonna get all the way up my butthole though
Haha turbine go brr
Dyson sphere or Penrose process
I am late to the party. What's wrong with boiling water? That said, my favourite power plants don't do it: photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower (though wet).
Boil water to rurn turbine is most energy generate. Wind is spin "turbine", hydro is spin turbine. Only photo is different.
Turns out moving magnetic fields against each other is damn efficient and hard to beat.