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ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… ~which then gets used to boil water~
Oh neat like the ones outside Vegas, I always wonder if birds fly into the center
Well they certainly don’t fly out of it
The ones with cameras might, probably a big conspiracy
Moths must love this shit
Free roast pidgeon for the workers
Yeah, but that secretly a lazer weapon.
I have a theoretical degree in physics
it better be a degree celsius
Welcome aboard!
Kickstart this new source of clean energy by burning fossil fuels and spraying CFCs into the air. A hotter planet means water boils easier! 😃
The efficiency of any heat engine comes from the difference between hot and cold, you can’t get useful work if the water’s already boiled.
Never sell proven chemistry or physics short. Water transforming to a vapor is awesome. Maybe we could harness the energy of water transforming to a solid too.
I mean, it… does expand when freezing… so maybe?
It’s incredibly silly that even tho we advance the scale of power, with electricity, solar and even nuclear, all we use it is to boil water. We just can’t seem to be able t build any a more advanced mechanism, it seems.
Photovoltaics
Instasaved!
Wind and photovoltaic have nothing to do with water
Mfw they use wind and photovoltaic energy to pump water to a high place so they can put it through a turbine later
Water is a fucking insanely awesome material.
Are we against boiling water only because it is old? Because if that is the only problem and we are ok with reliability and efficiency than i will take old
Its more a commentary that most “new electricity source!!! Amazing!” Is a heat source thats boiling water to turbines which isnt a new method, its a new source of heat. So more a complaint about sensational headlines about electricity
It turns out boiling water is a really good idea.
Especially when you make a good cuppa with it.
Wot if instead of boiling water, we boiled CO2, and instead of boiling CO2, we kept it at high pressure so that it never quite reached boiling or condensation?
Using water is cheaper and easier. That is all that stop your idea from being IRL.
geothermal typically uses chemicals other than water because they have a lower boiling point
the specific chemical being cheap is relatively unimportant if it’s a closed loop. the cost is next to nothing compared to the whole construction
shouldn’t it boil so that it can expands and makes pressure to move a turbine?
why use energy to make a counter pressure
Supercritical phase, it still changes pressure with heat, but there’s no abrupt phase transition. This increases efficiency somehow.
different tool for a different purpose. water has a large heat of evaporation which is something that allows for more compact turbines
sCO2 turbines are like 1/30th the size of an equivalent steam turbine.
It would also be ideal for high-efficiency, high-temperature hydrogen production.
Turbine go brr
Physicists just looove a hot shower
That’s the reason why all electricity generation boils down to hot water.
I mean, is there a more efficient way to take raw energy and spin a turbine with it?
Photosynthesis?
The issue is more the cost. For this you need lots of mirrors and a tower. Solar panels are just cheaper.
Meh, it works.
They have (had?) these across the California border from Vegas. Bright as fuck, you could see them dozens of miles away when flying in on a plane, but couldn’t look directly at them.
Ivanpah Solar Power Facility and the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project.
Looks like the first is still producing power, but the electricity being generated ended up being much costlier than photovoltaic panels (since they didn’t anticipate they would become so cheap back when it was being constructed) and the people running it want to shut it down. And the latter was shut down after the company went bankrupt twice.
