• nocturne@slrpnk.net
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      9 hours ago

      Yes, inside of every solar panel is water and tiny turbines. The sun heats the water, when it turns to steam it spins the turbines to generate electricity.

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          Wind turbines use whales and birds, I think it is like in Norse mythology where the wolves Sköll and Hati chase the Sun and moon. But with wind you have whales chasing birds while they are strapped to the blades, this causes them to spin and that generates wind, which fans the flames of fires to boil water and that creates steam.

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      Solar, wind, tidal, RTG, DEC fusion are all options without steam

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        9 hours ago

        Does hydropower count as cold steam?

        Well I guess all wind power is also steam at a very low concentration heated by a fusion reaction.

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          Yeah. One uses the passage of a gas over rotating blades. The other uses water as it flows.

          Neither use the passage of gaseous water, so theyre totally different!

          /s

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            We never moved away from windmills basically. Only solar is completely different, besides niche impractical things like piezo crystals

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      In a way. The energy is, in part, used to cook my food which creates an proton gradient across the inner membrane of my mitochondria which then forces those protons through a turbine.

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        this is so stupid we should just bioengineer injectable chloroplasts for our skin and power ourselves directly with the sun

        (yes i am currently hungry but don’t feel like cooking how can you tell?)

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          Sure, imagine if everyone who has a vitamin D deficiency was now also chronically malnourished as well. In order for your plan to work, people have to be willing to go outside and spend time in the sun…

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          I WISH

          Mitochondria + Chloroplast and accompanying UV damage repair systems would be poggers.

          Imagine being able to take a nap and snack at the same time. Totally plant coded and root pilled.