Chapter 131 - 129 Blade-Free Turbine
The rekindling of old feelings between old lovers is ultimately just an interlude; survival is the theme of this apocalypse.
For Chen Xin, he no longer needs to worry about how to survive.
The emergence of hot spring water has greatly increased the heat energy available from the geothermal pump, to the extent that even if Chen Xin shuts down the equipment, the warming of the groundwater can maintain the shelter at a temperature of around 13~16℃.
If it weren’t for the need to maintain the greenhouse temperature, the geothermal pump Chen Xin just made might even be somewhat redundant.
However, this has given him a new idea, which is to use the heat from the geothermal pump to generate electricity, as he had thought before.
This is not difficult to achieve technically; it only requires attaching a heat recovery device to the heat dissipation pipe and using this heat to perform thermal energy conversion, converting it into electrical energy.
As for the means of converting thermal energy into electrical energy, a turbine commonly used in thermal power plants would suffice to complete the task.
Speaking of turbines, Chen Xin was once particularly fascinated by geek projects during his university days and had transformed a blower for an air mattress and discarded CDs into a Tesla turbine capable of powering a light bulb in his dorm room.
Although this thing had no practical significance, completely relying on the blower to drive the impeller to do work, overall, the device was indeed made, and the process of creating it was not complicated. Chen Xin still has the drawings he used back then on his computer.
The Tesla turbine is a turbine invented by the Federation’s legendary physicist Nikola Tesla.