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by a1371 457 days ago
That's not true. Except for nuclear and solar collectors, all renewables, especially hydro, have nothing to do with steam.
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What isn't true?

> Most electricity is generated by using steam to turn turbines

That is true. It is also true that renewables usually do not use steam. But they don't answer for "most electricity". That's natural gas, coal and other types of thermal plants, including nuclear.

Renewable power is 30% of the world grid.

Gas combined cycle power plants get part of their power from gas in the turbine directly, and part of it from steam cycles. I can't figure out what % over of power comes from which part, and not all gas power plants are combined cycled.

It seems reasonable to say that most electricity is not generated by steam turbines. However I'm not sure how to find the real data to verify this. (and pedantically the gas in a gas turbine is mostly steam)

Geothermal plants also use steam (not to be confused with geothermal heating/cooling, which is just a heat pump with the heat exchanger underground rather than in the air).