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Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps! (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 116 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months 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 11 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hollowed be thy pipes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Anoint me in condensate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

Also fuel cells.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hey we burn things just for heat too.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, heat to boil water

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

We heat homes by heating water and putting the hot water through pipes into wall mounted iron tanks so that the water cools down again...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not everyone uses radiators. My system is a forced air furnace.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

We heat water molecules in air.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Floor heating is state of the art here, no radiators. Water pipes in screed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fireplaces?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And water

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

We smelting water tonight?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

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

/pun intended

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

That's all "burn shit".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

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