• Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 days ago

    My guess would be it’s a play on how every time humans develop some new method for generating electricity, it always comes back to boiling water and turning a turbine with steam.

      • Albbi@piefed.ca
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        • Photovoltaics

        There’s also solar thermal where you redirect sunlight to a central reservoir to heat up water to yada yada yada.

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          Big ol’ tower of fucking mirrors, designed to turn natural light into a fucking laser who’s entire purpose is to generate steam… To spin a turbine.

      • Lupus108@sh.itjust.works
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        What about wind turbines? They use wind, which mainly is generated by the Sun unevenly heating a vast body of fluid, creating pressure gradients that set it in motion, which… in turn drives a turbine… goddammit.