▲ 793 ▼ Engineer turns disposable vape pen into a working web server (interestingengineering.com) submitted 5 months ago by TimeNaan@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 135 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago (2 children) it's not all steam permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're right! Sometimes we let the kinetic energy of the liquid water itself spin the turbine, when we're feeling freaky. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago all of these, and gas turbines too, are synchronous. some wind turbines are almost-synchronous and some use giant inverters which is probably one of bigger mass uses of power electronics today permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 13 points 5 months ago (1 child) You're right! Sometimes we let the kinetic energy of the liquid water itself spin the turbine, when we're feeling freaky. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago all of these, and gas turbines too, are synchronous. some wind turbines are almost-synchronous and some use giant inverters which is probably one of bigger mass uses of power electronics today permalink fedilink source parent
[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago all of these, and gas turbines too, are synchronous. some wind turbines are almost-synchronous and some use giant inverters which is probably one of bigger mass uses of power electronics today permalink fedilink source parent