ACKSHUALLY you’re not burning atoms in a nuclear reaction. You’re creating a chain reaction of neutrons colliding with Uranium isotopes. No combustion.
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someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Our entire society* has been based on burning things. Then we progressed to… burning atoms.
(*Exceptions I can think of is solar, wind, hydro.)
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
joyjoy@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Solar farms did start out as using the sun to boil water. Basically mirrors redirecting light to a central point to super-heat a pipe flowing with water.
burgersc12@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They actually has been a major increase in solar thermal power stations in the last few years
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Oh so that’s what that big central tower in New Vegas was. I never put two and two together.
FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wind and hydro still have to spin a turbine. Solar is the one true stand out advancement in electricity production since we started using electricity.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They spin it directly though, not via steam.
Opafi@feddit.de 10 months ago
Technically, as long as there’s more than zero percent humidity I guess wind turbines are still powered by steam. And hydro is essentially steam, too, just the cooler version.
Zellith@kbin.social 10 months ago
To be fair, the atmos were going to burn anyhow. We just clumped them together to make better use of them.
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Then we’re leaching off the sun burning atoms.
someguy3@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OOOOOO.