Oh boy just wait till you hear how fossil fuels work
Nuclear power? That's just steam power with extra steps!
Submitted 5 months ago by Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works to science_memes@mander.xyz
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zepheriths@lemmy.world 5 months ago
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 5 months ago
That’s just steam power with extra steps!
I’ve got bad news for ya bruv
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 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.)
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Then we’re leaching off the sun burning atoms.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
OOOOOO.
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
ACKSHUALLY you’re not burning atoms in a nuclear reaction. You’re creating a chain reaction of neutrons colliding with Uranium isotopes. No combustion.
joyjoy@lemm.ee 5 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 5 months ago
They actually has been a major increase in solar thermal power stations in the last few years
canis_majoris@lemmy.ca 5 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 5 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 5 months ago
They spin it directly though, not via steam.
Zellith@kbin.social 5 months ago
To be fair, the atmos were going to burn anyhow. We just clumped them together to make better use of them.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They can’t all be photonic inversion.
Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Well Rotating a rotor on a generator is the most convenient way to make electricity with parts that last a long amount of time. Also doesn’t help that we use AC power while other sources like photovoltaic produce DC power which needs to be converted to be used.
CJOtheReal@ani.social 5 months ago
I like RTGs way more
perishthethought@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Don’t forget about the deadly waste product!
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 5 months ago
Kyle Hill has done so much good in combating the absolute minefield of fearmongering and misinformation surrounding Nuclear power.
As long as you play by the rules, it's incredibly safe. It's when you start taking shortcuts and start fucking around that you find out... and there are plenty of things more likely to kill you than nuclear.
Rozauhtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Not to mention coal also releases radioactive particles too, but instead of being safely contained they’re released into the air you breathe.
But hey, it’s invisible, so it’s less scary!
dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I see your youtuber, and raise you Scientific American with quotes by actual doctors and nuclear technicians. In detail, the article explores all of the myriad ways that nuclear power is the opposite of kissable. My fav? Illinois isn’t on a fault line, but they send all of their spent nuclear fuel to Nevada, where it is stored on a fault line.
Rooskie91@discuss.online 5 months ago
If you don’t like that don’t look up PWRs, they don’t boil water to boil water.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 5 months ago
All of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water
FederatedSaint@lemmy.world 5 months ago
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.
Kidplayer_666@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Exactly why we should ditch them. We shall not break tradition. Praise be the turbine
vithigar@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Also fuel cells.
someguy3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hey we burn things just for heat too.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, heat to boil water
PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
I think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff.
/pun intended
Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Boil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.
CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
That’s all “burn shit”.
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Most of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.