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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago (12 children)

Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.

I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Piezo electricity too. It's very seldom used for power generation but does exist

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oh yea! I forgot about that one! It's starting to be used a lot in implantable medical devices to generate a small current. There was also that thing a few years back that was trying to use it to generate power from waves/tides; not sure if that actually got past the proof-of-concept stage though.

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