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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Wind, hydro, solar panels and geothermal do not rely on boiling water at all. Fossil fuels (which are burned) and nuclear (which produces heat through nuclear reactions) do heat water (generally) to produce steam to spin turbines. Since they produce heat, naturally we want to put that heat to productive use. What else could we do with those fuel sources to produce energy we can use?
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