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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Most of the thermal (coal and nuclear) and physical (water and wind) generation is in a form of energy that doesn’t translate very well to electricity.
Thankfully we figured out that spinning a magnet really fast (turbines!) is a great way to translate kinetic energy to electricity. So rather than try and figure out a new way to generate electricity, we just adapted one that works well enough.
Solar power is really the only form of power generation we have developed that translates one type of energy neatly into electricity.
As for the fusion reactor experiments, those are not yet at the power generation stage yet. We are only in the infancy of getting them to work by 1) getting it to last more than a tiny fraction of a second and 2) getting it to generate more energy than it takes to get the reaction going. Once we get it stable and affordable then we’ll deal with how to translate it into electricity.
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