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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Isn’t it fair to say that rotational energy generation allows for a near-infinite amount of distance traveled by the generating mechanics within a system with limited space? A tire can travel along a road for miles and miles, while never leaving the axle it’s rotating around.
Think about pistons versus turbines – pistons may only have a few inches of travel between compression and expansion of the gas inside the chamber, but chaining several together via cams in a rotational system allows for the expansion in one chamber to cause the compression in another. As the pistons go up and down in a linear fashion over a limited amount of actual distance, the cams can rotate an unlimited number of times within the same system (in an ideal, friction-less scenario).
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