• not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 days ago

    shouldn’t it boil so that it can expands and makes pressure to move a turbine?

    why use energy to make a counter pressure

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      7 days ago

      Supercritical phase, it still changes pressure with heat, but there’s no abrupt phase transition. This increases efficiency somehow.