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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Using motion of moving things to spin a turbine is very effective way of generating power, and very convenient too. Turbine doesn’t occupy too much space and doesn’t need to move anywhere. And in our 250+ years of harnessing energy we have really perfected this way, starting with wind and water mills. And, building a bigger turbine is not a big deal.
There are alternatives though. For solar energy we learned to generate energy directly from photons hitting the solar panel, which is cool. For thermal energy we learned to generate energy from temperature difference (if we have 2 surfaces of different temperature close together). For nuclear energy we have learned to build batteries out of radioactive material.
However we only had a few decades to improve those technologies. They are costly and ineffective. We cannot scale them up as good as turbines. But hey, give it another 200 years and maybe we will.
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