Ugga is confused. Ugga needs help. Why basically only turbines?
* Nuclear power. Turbines.
* Water power (waterfall, dams and so on). Turbines.
* Wind power. Turbine (This one i accept).
* Wave power. Turbines.
* Coal power. Turbines.
The only one i can think of that doesnt use turbines is solar power. Have we not in our 250+ years of harnessing energy come up with a way of getting said power without using turbines except for solar power? Or is it just that, its our most effective way?
How do we extract energy from our fusion trial chambers? Is it just the heat being funneled to a watertank with a turbine?
RTGs in satellites uses thermocouple. Im guessing solar works in a similar way?
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> How do we extract energy from our fusion trial chambers?
We don’t. So far no fusion project is even attempting to make any use of the energy produced in the reaction, it is just dissipated as heat. We have yet to acheive a self-sustaining fusion reaction, let alone produce any excess power to do something useful.
Most fusion power proposals would use the produced heat to drive a turbine just like today’s power plants, but there is a more unconventional design being developed by a company called Helion Energy. Their reactor would operate in cycles a bit like a piston engine, compressing the plasma, igniting the fusion reaction, then extracting electrical energy directly from the expanding plasma using the same magnets used to compress it. But this company also has yet to demonstrate net energy production and while they are making bold claims, it remains to be seen if their system will work.
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