Comment on Reactor goes brrr

Skepticpunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Have we still not been able to progress past all power generation being “use water to turn a generator”? Humanity figured out the water wheel then just kept making it more complex.

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  • Walk_blesseD@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How about “use air to turn a generator”? Now that’s original. Or photovoltaics, I guess.

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    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So I’ve tried starting a perpetual windmill and it made money on only fans but it turned out the be an electrical loss overall… Had to abandon that attempt, back to the drawling board, I think I messed up somewhere.

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      • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You know that windmills are kind of the opposite of fans? Try “only windmills” instead and it’s not a :.|:; anymore

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  • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We have! Thermoelectric generators that make electricity directly from heat exist, they’re just often not very good compared to the spinny wheel.

    We even use them to make nuclear reactors with no moving parts, which I think is really neat. They’re used in places where maintenance or refueling is difficult or impossible, like space probes.

    en.wikipedia.org/…/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge…

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  • SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What about a piss wheel instead of a water wheel?

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