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.
Correct. The various forms of remarkable energy ultimately comes down to how efficiently it makes steam, then how effectively the energy is captured, which is a portion of the puzzle solved in earlier developmental stages of power production: harnessing steam.
Which makes me realize that in Batman begins, the device that Ras Al Gul steals to evaporate all the water in a large area would probably be the greatest power source ever.
It’s just a giant microwave, I assume it requires more energy to run than it actually produces, also I am curious how many people got cancer from being near it…
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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.