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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A spinning magnet is one of the few ways to efficiently generate AC electricity, which is what the grid used to deliver electricity to your house.
Other types of generators that you mentioned generate DC electricity which needed to be transformed to AC first before being sent to the grid but this is not free of cost, there is some energy loss during the conversion.
To put it another way, we cannot directly use the energy we generated. Most generators generate “heat energy” but our appliances take “electrical energy”, to convert heat to electrical we heat water into steam to turn a turbine to generate AC that is then “pumped” into the grid.
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