Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agoNuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square62fedilinkarrow-up1466arrow-down113
arrow-up1453arrow-down1imageNuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!sh.itjust.worksConsole_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square62fedilink
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up116·1 year agoAll of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water
minus-squareFederatedSaint@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoThat’s why photovoltaics need much more R&D. They are the only true advancement in electricity production since the inception of broadly adopted electrification.
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·1 year agoExactly why we should ditch them. We shall not break tradition. Praise be the turbine
minus-squareOpafi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoIt doesn’t rotate to generate electricity? Must be blasphemy.
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 year agoBlessed be the holy turbine, we seek guidance in its rotation. Long may it spin and bring forth a bounteous current.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·1 year agoHey we burn things just for heat too.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·1 year agoYeah, heat to boil water
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoWe heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.
minus-squareCJOtheReal@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·1 year agoWe heat homes by heating water and putting the hot water through pipes into wall mounted iron tanks so that the water cools down again…
minus-squareBandoCalrissian@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoNot everyone uses radiators. My system is a forced air furnace.
minus-squarescifu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoWe heat water molecules in air.
minus-squarerimjob_rainerlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoFloor heating is state of the art here, no radiators. Water pipes in screed.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoNot only water as per the original comment. You need heat to smelt ore and do any number of industrial things to progress society.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoBut then you quench that ore in water! It’s just heating water with extra steps!
minus-squarePoisonedPrisonPandalinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 year agoI think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff. /pun intended
minus-squarePyr_Pressure@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·1 year agoBoil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.
minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoMost of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.
All of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water
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.
Exactly why we should ditch them. We shall not break tradition. Praise be the turbine
Hollowed be thy pipes
Anoint me in condensate
It doesn’t rotate to generate electricity? Must be blasphemy.
Blessed be the holy turbine, we seek guidance in its rotation. Long may it spin and bring forth a bounteous current.
Also fuel cells.
Hey we burn things just for heat too.
Yeah, heat to boil water
We heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.
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…
Not everyone uses radiators. My system is a forced air furnace.
We heat water molecules in air.
Floor heating is state of the art here, no radiators. Water pipes in screed.
Fireplaces?
And water
We smelting water tonight?
Not only water as per the original comment. You need heat to smelt ore and do any number of industrial things to progress society.
But then you quench that ore in water! It’s just heating water with extra steps!
I think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff.
/pun intended
Boil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.
That’s all “burn shit”.
Most of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.