Thank you, I feel like not enough people talk about this. Wood, coal, oil, fission, fusion, antimatter annihilation. We keep making more and more dense/available sources of raw thermal energy generation over the course of the past 200 years.
Meanwhile, converting into electrical or mechanical energy is still just boiling water to turn a turbine. Somehow that's barely changed in hundreds of years.
Somehow we're still innovating on features for toaster ovens, but we never hear about major game changer technology for energy conversion
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Thank you, I feel like not enough people talk about this. Wood, coal, oil, fission, fusion, antimatter annihilation. We keep making more and more dense/available sources of raw thermal energy generation over the course of the past 200 years.
Meanwhile, converting into electrical or mechanical energy is still just boiling water to turn a turbine. Somehow that's barely changed in hundreds of years.
Somehow we're still innovating on features for toaster ovens, but we never hear about major game changer technology for energy conversion