• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

      • jagungal@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I mean, radioactive isotopes are formed in supernovae, so it’s really just solar power from a different sun, right?

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          It’s all gravity in the end. Or probably middle but I don’t know why gravity, so that’s as far as I can reduce it.

          Everything we see around us is just hydrogen trying to get closer to the middle of the biggest hydrogen party it can find in the general vicinity. And we were all once part of at least one massive party that eventually got a bit out of hand when we all tried to get so close together we bounced off of a neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.

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      2 months ago

      Most power generation is just steam spinning turbines. Solar’s just weird. Wind cuts out the steam loop.

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        2 months ago

        Reflective solar is normal at least. But photovoltaics are weird. Even weirder is that they’re LEDs backwards, and the fact that transistors just are like that is why they’re encased in black plastic

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          2 months ago

          Unless you WANT your transistor to be this way and use it so you put an actual led inside the plastic as well to mess with (i.e. turn on and off) the transistor!

          Also I would argue that wind could also be considered ‘steam’ turning a turbine. It’s just vapour pressure ‘steam’ with a LOT of other pollutants which somehow increase the efficiency!