– Burn fossil fuels, boil water, create steam and pressure to turn turbines.
– Create controlled nuclear reaction, which causes nuclear fuel rods to get extremely hot, water boils to make steam and spins turbines
– Hydro dam. Gravity from the reservoir above create massive differential pressure, whi h can spin turbines.
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Ok, so if you put an electricity generating turbine in pretty much every pipe, would that require more energy to pump through the system?
Below would only work if you’re not using fossil fuels to create the pressure right? And is there a limit on what you could get from a system?
https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/03/company-turns-piped-water-into-electricity/
Gravity mostly.
Water wants to run downhill and if you build a gigantic dam in the way of a river and only allow it to flow though a set of small pipes you can use that to generate lot of electricity.
In some cases reservoirs are sued a s giant batteries for the power grid.
Electricity is also used at some points to pump water up and generated later by letting the water flow through a generator t get electricity.
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