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Turbines are our friends (media.piefed.social)

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Another thread I read said that photovoltaics have an efficiency of around 45%, while turbines are somewhere in the 40% range. Source: I dunno.

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

PVs max out around 28%

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

Turbines are over 90% efficient.

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[–] zout@fedia.io 4 points 7 months ago

Traditional Rankine cycles with a boiler, a turbine and a condenser have efficiencies lower than 40%, I've never seen one higher than 30%.

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