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[-] Tehdastehdas@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

Back when electric cars were uncool, BMW tried adding a little bit of steam to their cars:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosteamer

Anything to avoid giving up the toxic unreliable rube-goldbergian fossil-fueled mess, anything but the beautiful simplicity of electricity.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

YOU JUST GAVE ME THE BEST WORST IDEA

what if we built a teensy helios 1 on top of a car to boil water while driving. like a mr fusion. we could have espresso!

[-] Deconceptualist@leminal.space 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I know it's a comic but I'm tired of this. The high heat capacity and abundance of water make it excellent for energy transfer. But it's not the source of energy. The source is what distinguishes different types of generators, not the engineering logistics of transfer.

[-] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 day ago

look into reactor
it's boiling water

[-] Flower@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

You can try supercritical CO2 now if you don't like water.

But supercritical CO2 is just CO2 you tricked into acting kinda like water sometimes

[-] Franconian_Nomad@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

Still only spin generator like all other except photo.

[-] saltnotsugar@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Bro just plug your phone into the uranium rod directly. Checkmate power company.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

how's my phone gonna get all the way up my butthole though

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 1 day ago

Something something turbine something electricity something.

[-] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Haha turbine go brr

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago

I am late to the party. What's wrong with boiling water? That said, my favourite power plants don't do it: photovoltaic, wind power and hydropower (though wet).

Boil water to rurn turbine is most energy generate. Wind is spin "turbine", hydro is spin turbine. Only photo is different.

[-] Jiral@lemmy.org 3 points 1 day ago

Turns out moving magnetic fields against each other is damn efficient and hard to beat.

[-] MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Dyson sphere or Penrose process

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