It’s been more than 200 years since the widespread implementation of the steam engine.
Why is this still the most prevalent means of producing electricity? With things like fusion reactors, why is it so hard to convert the thermal energy into electrical energy?
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In Austria and Norway, electricity is primarily produced with hydroelectric plants, which use water in liquid form only.
Neither do Wind/Photovoltaic use steam, and Solarthermal electric plants which use hot steam lost the race to PV recently.
Steam turbines are a marvel of high tech that cover a wide range of scenarios and got a boost from new materials that further increased efficiency after been optimized for more than a century.
Why do we still use Fingers after inventing brain scanners? Because they are still bad and we built our environment for finger interaction already.
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