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[–] [email protected] 192 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Water and steam just too goddamn convenient. Super high latent heat so it can move a ton of energy with a quick phase change, works at reasonable pressures and temperatures, stays liquid all the time when you want it to so pumps work, and it's so readily available as to be damn near free. Super cool!

[–] [email protected] 125 points 8 months ago (1 children)

also almost non-corrosive, non-toxic, doesn't damage ozone layer, zero global warming potential, non-flammable etc (lots of organic rankine cycle fluids fail one or more of these. tradeoff is utilization of lower temperature sources)

[–] [email protected] 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

zero global warming potential

This one isn't right. Nobody will complain about you releasing it, but it's a quite strong global warming gas.

[–] [email protected] 110 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Very strong GWP, but it does this cool thing where it condenses when it hits colder air and falls back to the ground in liquid state, thus removing itself from the atmosphere...

(It's equivalent GWP is near zero and is estimated to be between 0.0005 and -0.001)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

it condenses when it hits colder air and falls back to the ground in liquid state, thus removing itself from the atmosphere

Oh sure ... blame it on the rain.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Tell me more about this incredible process. Does it have a name?

[–] Klear 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If it doesn't I propose a simple and descriptive "waterfall".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I prefer the more poetic "God pissing on the monkeys"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What would the white stuff that comes from the sky then be called?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Power station fall-out

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

precipitation

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

But it can be contained and condensed for reused.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It’s great for nuclear reactors. Hot rock make turbine go brrr

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Best explanation of nuclear energy I’ve ever heard

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Nuclear energy is solar too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

In the same way that hydrogen, given sufficient time, turns into people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

nah not solar, the energy comes not from Sol the star, but from dead stars of past.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Him: Our sun is a nuclear reactor too.

You: Our nuclear reactors are made of dead suns.

Both right, yet disagreeing.