Comment on same shit every day, on god

Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Now here’s an idea - we boil the water to turn turbines, and then have the steam collect and pool in an upper chamber before running through another turbine into the first boiling chamber below?

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  • Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m talking about pumped hydro power. It’s all the excitement of using water to turn turbines(as it’s released to gravity), but none of the boiling.

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    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Oh, I understood - your comment g actually triggered a curiosity in me as to why we don’t combine the two methods (boiling and falling) to “double-dip” on electricity production.

      I’m sure there are plenty of practical reasons why not, but I genuinely don’t know.

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      • Deconceptualist@leminal.space ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Well if you remember from school, energy is defined as the capacity to do work. And if the rising steam does the work of turning a turbine, it’ll have a lot less kinetic energy left afterwards and won’t rise nearly as far.

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• robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  steam rises, maybe we could boil water and then condense it at a higher elevation.

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