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You have probably done it without even noticing. The modern world is clearly miraculous.

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[–] EmoDuck 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have nuclear or coal powerd electricity you'd be using boiling water to boil your water

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I mean, the vast majority of our electricity (or at least fossil-fuel powered) is essentially “burn stuff to boil water, use steam to power turbine”.

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

Some of my electricity comes from magic rocks. Hold them close together and they get hot enough to make steam. Take them apart and they cool off. Just don't hold them too close together or bad things happen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Where were you comrade Dyatlov ?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

And in the same way you can freeze water with steam.

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

Hydroelectric primer is actually solar energy. Sun evaporated water.. Which then rains too full the damn, then gravity does is job.. But it all starts with solar.. Freaking epic. And they called the Aztecs crazy for venerating the sun. Better than am imaginary friend I'll tell you what.

[–] threelonmusketeers 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

All energy except nuclear is technically solar energy...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All the heavy metals (including uranium) came from stars exploding in some form. So it's all from a sun (even if it's not ours)

Alternatively, the sun is a huge fusion furnace, so all energy is nuclear

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

We did it, lemmy, we discovered net positive fusion!

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

Solar in the definition of “of our star, Sol”…sure. But all energy is celestial in origin.

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

You're also boiling water with gravity.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And the gravity tank is filled using solar radiation.

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

And for the creation of this thought water was also involved; assuming this was indeed a showerthougt

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On top of the fact that OP himself is mostly just water.

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

I just peed myself laughing. Does that count ?

[–] 257m 3 points 1 year ago

Sadly I wasn't actually in the shower when I thought of this :(. Would be cool though if I was.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Considering where I live like 80% of our power generation is from hydro-electric dams, yep. I do this every day.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Canada?

Edit: Nvmd. Can't read instance domain lol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Western Canada.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, I can't. I don't have a kettle, and my stove operates on gas.

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

I don't have a kettle

What sad, depraved lives Americans live

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like we can't buy kettles if we want. I just have no use for one.

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

I just have no use for one.

What sad, depraved lives Americans live

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I own an electric kettle and I boil my water in the microwave!

(Watch this brit go insane over microwaved water.)

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

Sorry, I'm having trouble formulating a response with my entirely blown mind.

Scum, sub-human scum.

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

Besides the kettle is only for hot chocolate! You fill it up, put swissmiss in it and turn it on!

[–] 257m 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

wtf? You bought a kettle for swiss miss. Heresy! Only tea should go in kettles, everybody knows that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Got it, I'll try putting Arnold Palmer half & half in it next time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't that really gravity though? Or is it the mass?

[–] kersploosh 4 points 1 year ago

Gravitational force is proportional to mass, so yes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could that be any wordier?

Try this:

You can boil water with water by using hydroelectricity to power your kettle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You can excite water to the extent that it starts changing it's state of matter by employing a method of electricity generation which makes use of the subject we are trying to excite and subsequently powering a device which does the aforementioned excitement of water!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can also make light out of light by powering a lightbulb with solar energy, or create wind out of wind by powering a fan with electricity generated by wind turbines.

Just don't try to recreate nuclear energy at home, kids.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I never have been able to.

I used to be able to boil my water with electrons from a nuclear reactor.

Now that I moved, all my electrons get excited by high tech coal..... Oh...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

could burn hydrogen into water to boil and create water at the same time