It was water power dude. Water and Windmills started the industrial revolution. We’ve just been finding better ways to spin electric generator motors since then.
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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 4 months agoFossil fuels are the underpinning of industrial civilization. It was fossil fuels that made the industrial revolution possible, it wasn’t solar panels, and wind turbines, or heavy, giant batteries.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 4 months ago
Explain to the forum how water generates power. This should be funny.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
In my country, it was mostly large dams and hydroelectricity. But they have their own issues.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I don’t understand what your point is here? Fossil fuels were instrumental in the industrial revolution so we have to stick by them forever, planet and people’s health benefits damned?
Nah. Use the most appropriate tech available. Which is now renewables, electric motors, etc.