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The actual press release[1] from mit is a significantly better read [1] https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-heat-engine-0413 https://news.mit.edu/2022/thermal-he

• Gys 4y ago
  From the press release: > More than 90 percent of the world’s electricity comes from sources of heat such as coal, natural gas, nuclear energy, and concentrated solar energy. For a century, steam turbines have been the industrial standard for converting such heat sources into electricity. > On average, steam turbines reliably convert about 35 percent of a heat source into electricity, with about 60 percent representing the highest efficiency of any heat engine to date.
  • sebazzz 4y ago
    Steam is still hot after it has gone through the turbine. Let's put a few of these cells there.