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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Not all forms of electricity generation use this method, solar panels generate electricity directly, they don’t pass through the boiling water step.
Hydro power also doesn’t boil the water, it just uses turbines spun by water that has pressure behind it because of gravity.
Otherwise though, the most common form of energy, and the easiest to get, is heat. You burn something and you get heat. The most efficient way we know of to get electricity from heat, is indeed to use that heat energy to boil water and turn it into steam, use that steam tu turn a turbine which acts as an electrical generator because of moving magnets causing electricity.
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