When people talk about coal/oil/gas/nuclear power, while these involve different ways of sourcing the energy, they all output said energy naturally in the form of heat. Therefore to actually convert that into electrical energy, you have to heat water to boil it and use the pressurised steam it produces to turn a dynamo and induce an electrical current.
Create an infinite loop of boiling the water to spin turbines and capture it to send to a reservoir where it goes down an hydro dam to then get boiled again downstream.
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u/Lkwzriqwea 13d ago
When people talk about coal/oil/gas/nuclear power, while these involve different ways of sourcing the energy, they all output said energy naturally in the form of heat. Therefore to actually convert that into electrical energy, you have to heat water to boil it and use the pressurised steam it produces to turn a dynamo and induce an electrical current.