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Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps! (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 1 year ago (5 children)

All of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's why photovoltaics need much more R&D. They are the only true advancement in electricity production since the inception of broadly adopted electrification.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Exactly why we should ditch them. We shall not break tradition. Praise be the turbine

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hollowed be thy pipes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Anoint me in condensate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It doesn't rotate to generate electricity? Must be blasphemy.

[–] snugglesthefalse 8 points 1 year ago

Blessed be the holy turbine, we seek guidance in its rotation. Long may it spin and bring forth a bounteous current.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Also fuel cells.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey we burn things just for heat too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, heat to boil water

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

And water

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only water as per the original comment. You need heat to smelt ore and do any number of industrial things to progress society.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

But then you quench that ore in water! It's just heating water with extra steps!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We smelting water tonight?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff.

/pun intended

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Boil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's all "burn shit".

[–] Peppycito 3 points 1 year ago

Most of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.