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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Does hydropower count as cold steam?

  Well I guess all wind power is also steam at a very low concentration heated by a fusion reaction.

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  • fullsquare@awful.systems ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    the steam part is in the rest of hydrological cycle

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  • sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hydropower gets its energy from evaporated water rising to the big steam in the sky.

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• jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Wind and tidal is still just turbines.

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  • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yeah. One uses the passage of a gas over rotating blades. The other uses water as it flows.

    Neither use the passage of gaseous water, so theyre totally different!

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    • jol@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      We never moved away from windmills basically. Only solar is completely different, besides niche impractical things like piezo crystals

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