• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca
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    7 months 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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        7 months 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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          7 months 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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            7 months ago

            So I reversed the windmill to a helicopter, more views, still an overall electrical loss. Thanks for trying though. I might not be the best person for this job.

            Guess I should start scouting for talent

    • kattfisk@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 months 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.