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Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago

Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!

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Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!

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Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years ago
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    All of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water

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      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.

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

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          Hollowed be thy pipes

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            Anoint me in condensate

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

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

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        Also fuel cells.

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      Hey we burn things just for heat too.

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        Yeah, heat to boil water

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          We heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.

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            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…

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

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                We heat water molecules in air.

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

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              Fireplaces?

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            And water

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              We smelting water tonight?

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

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

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

      /pun intended

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

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        That’s all “burn shit”.

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

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