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No matter how we create energy, why do we still use it to boil water to move a turbine?

Is it seriously the most efficient method we have? Is there any research that is trying to find a better method of creating electricity from raw heat/energy produced through methods like fission or fusion or burning ass loads of coal.

How efficient is the steam method?
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pretty much as efficient as we can make it. What it really boils down to is that the most efficient method of generating electricity is turning a magnet inside a bunch of coils. Steam is useful because there's a lot of water around, water absorbs a lot of energy from a variety of sources, and the waste product of hot water is fairly (though not entirely) environmentally friendly (barring the method used to heat the water like burning coal). Furthermore turbines are excellent for gathering the energy of a moving fluid and turning it into the rotational energy necessary to generate the electricity.