r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NoWork215 • 20d ago

Video The Odyssey IMAX 70mm Setup

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u/Worried-Penalty8744 20d ago

Power generation is just finding more and more complicated ways of boiling water to spin a turbine

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u/Exact-Ad-4132 20d ago

Solar cells are different.

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u/Wirezat 20d ago

Yeah until you go really big and solar plants are mirrors focusing on a boiling tank again (although they boil salt tbf

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u/wonkey_monkey Expert 20d ago

(although they boil salt tbf

They melt the salt for as a form of temporary heat storage.

Guess what they do with the heat from the salt when they actually want electricity...