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Why is that a problem, exactly?
Because it's not as cool as directly harvest the energy itself like in scifi.
Like solar panels converting photons to electrons?
Like solar thermal powerplant or molten salt reactor, LAME.
That's why solarpunk is the coolest.
geothermal is boiling water too, and it's pretty neat
I've been thinking that for a while. Issue is that it's risky, if you fuck up there's a pretty high chance that there are going to be a lot of houses with cracks in their walls (assuming you're doing it in a relatively densely populated area that doesn't normally see earthquakes).
dropping the latter assumption?
What do you mean?
Any powerplant will usually done in a pretty isolated area for safety reason, so i'd assume the chance of it happen is very, very slim. If location isn't permitted it's probably shouldn't be build, especially for the type that need to dig very deep to access the heat, so solar panel on roof is probably the best way for any power generation that is placed close or in the populated area.
Honey, go toss another plutonium pellet in the house slot, please.
Let me guess, you need to boil some water?
It's not really a problem, it's just funny that so many forms of power generation we have are just boiling water to make steam that spins turbines.
It only feels odd because that is genuinely an incredibly effective means of generation, and we found it very early on because steam is so fundamental. Nothing wrong with sticking to the best method ever discovered.
Solar concentration is boiling some other liquid, so there's some variance 😅