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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Mostly because we use an electricity-based power system, and turbines are the main way of converting mechanical energy into electricity.
Electricity is super-useful because we know how to convert rotation into electricity and electricity into rotation, and we can send it long distances by wire. That makes it extremely versatile if you want to generate power in one place and use it in another. There are very few other energy sources that offer the same convenience.
If you’re using the power source to do the work directly, you don’t need a turbine, and it is in fact a lot more efficient to do it this way. There are wind and water mills, for example, and vehicle engines that run on gas, coal, or nuclear power which they carry around with them get a lot more power for their fuel consumption than they would converting it into electricity and using that for power. The advantage of electric vehicles is not raw efficiency, but the fact that power plants can have pollutant scrubbers that wouldn’t fit in a car, and could in theory run off of green sources like wind, water, solar or geothermal energy that would be pretty tricky to fit in a vehicle.
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