Why do human electricity generation so focused on efficently boiling water and turning a turbine with it. do we have other ways of generating electricity every power plant i know (coal gas nuclear) does the turbine method ? And why is boiling water and turning a turbine with it so great ?
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The easiest form of energy to get is heat. Any inefficiency in any other form of energy conversion breaks down to heat anyway so by using heat we are accessing the most efficient form of energy available to us. And by far the easiest and most efficient way to convert heat to electricity is by boiling water to make steam and using that steam to turn turbines.
We do have other methods of electricity available to us, such as solar panels, but none are as easy or efficient as simply turning a turbine with steam.
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