• Yondoza@sh.itjust.works
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      Hydro, wind, solar, and wave/tide energy capture are not.

      The crazy part is photovoltaics are the only power source that doesn’t spin something to make electricity. Truly an outlier.

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          …and the fancy steam engine version of solar is probably greener to build that photovoltaics, since it’s basically just a boiler and some mirrors.

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        Internal combustion engine based generators aren’t fancy steam engines either - however, they have a lot in common still. It’s still just a way to move around the spinny bits of an alternator/generator/dynamo/whatever

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        There’s one more outlier though which is Electrochemical cell, like galvanic element or voltaic pile

        It was used around 1800 as a major electricity source, but I guess it quickly became uneconomical in 1866 or sth when the dynamo was invented.

        Edit: wait yes, it actually says this in the second paragraph of the linked article:

        The entire 19th-century electrical industry was powered by batteries related to Volta’s (e.g. the Daniell cell and Grove cell) until the advent of the dynamo (the electrical generator) in the 1870s.

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        Which requires them to output DC rather than AC, so they require inverters to change it to AC. It’s handier for battery storage though.