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It’s all variations of “make things spin.”

Either by heating up water so steam makes thing spin, using wind to make thing spin, or moving water to make thing spin.

I am willing to bet if you watched photo cells on solar panels under a microscope, the light would make something spin.

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I am willing to bet if you watched photo cells on solar panels under a microscope, the light would make something spin.

Nope, solar cells are solid state devices. ;)

Other examples of solid state electronic devices are the microprocessor chip, LED lamp, solar cell, charge coupled device (CCD) image sensor used in cameras, and semiconductor laser.

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Nope, solar cells are solid state devices. ;)

except for the fact that you actually want a grid tied interia component for stability.

So even in that case, you still tangentially need a “spinning mass” even if emulated in software with how it supplies energy to the grid. It’s still technically there.

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Have you considered supercapacitors could be used for that?

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Electrons are suspiciously close to spinning dynamos, so even just moving electrons might be considered spinning something.

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