We think of the power we generate as coming from all these different kinds of sources. Oil, gas, coal, nuclear, wind… so varied! And yet they all fundamentally come down to moving a gas through a turbine to actually spin up a generator and make some juice. Even some solar plants worked this way, using the sun’s energy to heat water into steam to spin some blades and keep the lights on.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://hackaday.com/2024/01/15/solar-chimneys-viable-energy-solution-or-a-lot-of-hot-air/