So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?
Not spicy. Everyone knows nuclear power is lemon-lime flavored.
Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.
That’s not a spicy challenge id be willing to try.
They just found rocks that are naturally hot and boiled water with it… Engineering is a scam.
We have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky.
When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics.
But engineering and technology? Applied geology.
(/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)
Sometimes we take the hot rocks and ship them to other planets too.
Reminds me of the meme using the Donnie Darko psychologist template.
Donnie: I made a new form of power generation.
Psychologist: New or steam?
Donnie: Steam…
The only truly new method of power generation we’ve made in the last 100 years has been photovoltaic cells. Everything else is just finding new ways to make turbines spin.
That’s just boiling water with extra steps
That’s wrong statement
I’ve actually seen this same meme used in the opposite way where they did discover a new way but I don’t remember enough information to find it. And I don’t think it was talking about solar.
This is reminds me of a quote from one of the Encased loading screens.
To paraphrase it “Power generation before was about turning a turbine with steam. Under the Dome we have this fancy technology that we use to…turn a turbine with steam.”
[Encased mentioned] I love that game
I have a play through of being a certified idiot. I have never laughed harder at things my character has done.
Nuclear power is just steampunk with magic rocks.
Nearly all power generation comes down to boiling water to steam which spins a turbine.
I can only think of two common exceptions off the top of my head. Solar is an exception and Hydro power is an exception ironically, that usually uses the vertical difference and gravity to spin the turbine.
Wind turbines also.
But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.
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There are gas turbine generators that directly use shaft power to generate electricity
One could even argue that hydro power is just boiling water, letting it condense, and then letting it spin a turbine
I’ve never heard of Hydro power boiling water. Usually hydro power is natural or pumped storage.
You’re just taking water from an upper reservoir and dropping it to a downstream river. Either a naturally-filled reservoir/lake, or a pumped storage reservoir where you use other cheap power during low usage periods to pump that water to a higher reservoir to utilize later. The pump doesn’t heat the water, it just moves it uphill to utilize later, like the Taum Sauk Hydroelectric Power Station in Missouri.
I know that… I was taking liberties to take hydroelectric power to its furthest logical extension by saying that the sun is evaporating (boiling) the water, it goes through the water cycle, it is deposited atop mountains or further upriver, and it then flows back down through the hydroelectric stations.
Wind? And binary cycle geothermal plants but not sure how common they are.
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God damnit Jinyang!
Errich, is the refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt, and he’s a rich.
“You’re a old, and a fat”
Nuclear power is the refining distilling and enriching of uranium into unstable isotopes and higher elements, boiling water is one small step in converting nuclear energy into electrical energy.
There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.
Some work went into fission designs as well.
The issue is that boiling water is inside human bodies
Or melting salt, or whatever. But yes it’s just making stuff hot.
And then using that salt to heat water into steam and using that steam to turn a turbine
We need high-efficiency thermoelectric generators.
