Seebeck generators
except for solar and wind, i guess. also the thingy where you catch electrons directly from nuclear decay.
Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 1 month ago
BreadOven@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Hydro as well.
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Some types of solar are also just boiling water. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_tower
j4yc33@piefed.social 1 month ago
There are also some chemical modes of electricity generation (Alkalai batteries, etc). Also using flowing water to move Turbines like dams.
But then the meme isn’t as fun here, and those are such a small minority of how we generate powers.
CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Even then all of them but solar are just spinning a wheel.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And even then some solar works by boiling salt… Or water.
0x0@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
So hamster power?
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
You could maybe catch lightning and store it. That’s not boiling water … what’s that? It is boiling water?
bort@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I wouldn’t be surprised, it it turns out, when the most efficient way to turn lightning into electricity, was to redirect it into a boiler, instead of harvesting it directly