Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agoNuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!sh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square64linkfedilinkarrow-up1473arrow-down113
arrow-up1460arrow-down1imageNuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!sh.itjust.worksConsole_Modder@sh.itjust.works to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square64linkfedilink
minus-squareKidplayer_666@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up116·2 years agoAll of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water
minus-squareFederatedSaint@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·2 years 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-up32·2 years agoExactly why we should ditch them. We shall not break tradition. Praise be the turbine
minus-squareOpafi@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoIt doesn’t rotate to generate electricity? Must be blasphemy.
minus-squaresnugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 years 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-up16·2 years agoHey we burn things just for heat too.
minus-squareSpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·2 years agoYeah, heat to boil water
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoWe heat homes, smelt ore, many industrial things.
minus-squareCJOtheReal@ani.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down1·2 years 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-up7·2 years agoNot everyone uses radiators. My system is a forced air furnace.
minus-squarescifu@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 years agoWe heat water molecules in air.
minus-squarerimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoFloor heating is state of the art here, no radiators. Water pipes in screed.
minus-squareBarqsHasBite@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years 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-22 years agoBut then you quench that ore in water! It’s just heating water with extra steps!
minus-squarePoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 years agoI think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff. /pun intended
minus-squarePyr@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 years agoBoil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.
minus-squarePeppycito@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years 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.