– Why is every power generation basically just turbines?

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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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Sorry but our knowledge ends about spinning magnets into coils. That is about 90 something % efficiency transforming mechanical power to electrical power.
If something better than spinning magnets and metals comes up , we are stuck up with this method.
For example, in nuclear plants, if you can find a way to transform gamma radiation directly to electricity in a verry efficient way, we will stop using steam turbines.

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