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    1 month ago

    One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine

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      1 month ago

      I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.

      You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.