You know almost every power generator in the world is a steam engine?

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You know how easy it is to make a steam engine? Everybody could have thier own generator on a garage pad. Then we could all work on creating perpetual energy for our selves. But the government would have to learn to share when someone figures it out rather than take it for themselves.

Alot of the problems we have in the world we only think we cant solve because weve been raised to be reliant on the system. Would we have starving or homless if anyone was aloud to grow food anywhere? Instead the majority is adicted to the news and social media thinking the only life is a 9-5 were we scrounge to balance food and rent.

Humans are far more intelligent and resilient than we are lead to believe. If you broke off from society, what are you capable of? What and where would you go off and learn?

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swirlie

You know almost every power generator in the world is a steam engine?

Coal-fire-steam-turbine
Gas-fire-steam-turbine
Nuclear fision-steam-turbine

The problem with these examples is that they all require that something be burned to make steam happen, which then turns the generator

What about water-powered generators where nothing is burnt to create power?

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie you can use anything to make heat. Since its small you could even just make it a camp fire to hang out at and the biproduct is heat directed to the boiler to push the piston and make energy while you have a BBQ. Maybe you run solar and wind all the time so the steam engine is only for recharging storage🤷‍♂. Possibilities are endless if you use your creative mind. The world these days is so rigid. Have fun with things.

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie i biproduct of unregulated energy is heat. So maybe you could have your boiler heat it self from its own production?🤷‍♂

swirlie

@GuyWithOpinions
But why do you need heat? Why do you need steam? All you're doing is turning a generator which produces electricity. All you really need is a means to turn the generator. Why does it have to involve heat and steam?

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie to make it automatic. You could stand there and turn the crank with your hands or a bike generator lol but we invented a way to turn steam pressure into mechanical energy and went a little nuts with it for 120 years.

swirlie

@GuyWithOpinions

But what about hydro-electric power? We've had that for about 65 years.

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie yep. Same thing. But you need a river. Not every city is close enough to a river and a dam is really expensive.

swirlie

@GuyWithOpinions
A river provides infinite energy as a source to turn the generator for free, whereas a generator that requires steam to turn it, also requires something to burn to create heat to make steam, all of which creates a limited source of power. When the fuel source runs out, the lights go off.

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie yeah, thats how it works. Blackouts do occur from time to time for various reasons.

Your somewhat right. The energy is infinitely sustainable for free. But it is not infinite energy. A dam produces massive power. Probably enough for like 4 cities. But we have more than 4 cities to power.

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie well maybe not 4 cities idfk 🤷‍♂ you know what i mean.

swirlie

@GuyWithOpinions
Rather than use fossil fuel to produce heat to produce steam to turn a generator to create electricity, why not just hook a diesel engine up to a generator and call it a day?

GuyWithOpinions · 31-35, M

@swirlie its the same thing. A diesel generator is just a small internal combistion engine that pushes pistons using contained explosions. Its the predecessor to the steam engine.

I cant build a internal combustion engine in my garage. The steam engine produces less but its easier to make and i can use any fuel source i want to make heat. Even an old couch.