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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An easy way to generate power is to turn kinetic energy into electricity with a spinning magnet and conductive coil, aka a generator. Anything that uses this style of generator has to be good at creating that spinning movement. On the small scale we have piston engines, but that’s inefficient and inflexible.
Turbines are efficient, work with liquid or gas, and steam turbines specifically just need a source of heat. Conceptually anything that uses a heat source and steam turbine is very simple, so actually building one becomes a matter of details.
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