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minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·14 hours agoHydro isn’t. Nor is solar photo voltaic, wind, or tidal, but yeah, nearly everything else is. In a combined-cycle natural gas or diesel plant half of the power generated isn’t steam power, but the other half is.
minus-squareinsufferableninja@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21arrow-down3·14 hours agoHydro is liquid steam
minus-squarethedirtyknapkin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·14 hours agoaah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water. smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?
minus-squaregandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-237 minutes ago gas generators based on internal combustion they heat air, afaik. hot gas expands -> mechanical movement moves magnets -> electromagnetism -> electric power.
minus-squarebaines@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·13 hours agoboiling just makes the water move, hydro just cheats
minus-squareJasonDJ@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-211 hours agoElectromagnetic induction. Basically electric motor in reverse…instead of electricity powering the motor, the motor powers electricity. But the trick is in “what spins the motor”. In the case if ICE generators, it’s usually a pulley off the crankshaft. Or it could be moving water.
minus-squarefullsquare@awful.systemslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agofor ccgt it’s more like 2/3 for gas turbine, 1/3 for steam turbine split, even more uneven for diesel/steam because diesel exhaust is much colder
Hydro isn’t. Nor is solar photo voltaic, wind, or tidal, but yeah, nearly everything else is. In a combined-cycle natural gas or diesel plant half of the power generated isn’t steam power, but the other half is.
Hydro is liquid steam
aah, but it didn’t say steam, it said boiling water.
smaller gas generators based on internal combustion engines don’t boil water though, right?
they heat air, afaik. hot gas expands -> mechanical movement moves magnets -> electromagnetism -> electric power.
boiling just makes the water move, hydro just cheats
Electromagnetic induction.
Basically electric motor in reverse…instead of electricity powering the motor, the motor powers electricity.
But the trick is in “what spins the motor”. In the case if ICE generators, it’s usually a pulley off the crankshaft.
Or it could be moving water.
Molten ice.
for ccgt it’s more like 2/3 for gas turbine, 1/3 for steam turbine split, even more uneven for diesel/steam because diesel exhaust is much colder