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[–] 32 points 4 months ago (25 children)

Do solar panels operate in this way?

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  • [–] 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

    Yes, inside of every solar panel is water and tiny turbines. The sun heats the water, when it turns to steam it spins the turbines to generate electricity.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    just like wind turbine right?

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    Wind turbines use whales and birds, I think it is like in Norse mythology where the wolves Sköll and Hati chase the Sun and moon. But with wind you have whales chasing birds while they are strapped to the blades, this causes them to spin and that generates wind, which fans the flames of fires to boil water and that creates steam.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    Solar, wind, tidal, RTG, DEC fusion are all options without steam

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  • [–] 17 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Does hydropower count as cold steam?

    Well I guess all wind power is also steam at a very low concentration heated by a fusion reaction.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Wind and tidal is still just turbines.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah. One uses the passage of a gas over rotating blades. The other uses water as it flows.

    Neither use the passage of gaseous water, so theyre totally different!

    /s

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago* (7 children)

    In a way. The energy is, in part, used to cook my food which creates an proton gradient across the inner membrane of my mitochondria which then forces those protons through a turbine.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago* (6 children)

    this is so stupid we should just bioengineer injectable chloroplasts for our skin and power ourselves directly with the sun

    (yes i am currently hungry but don't feel like cooking how can you tell?)

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (4 children)

    I WISH

    Mitochondria + Chloroplast and accompanying UV damage repair systems would be poggers.

    Imagine being able to take a nap and snack at the same time. Totally plant coded and root pilled.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    humans: getting dunked on by corals and lichens, in this category

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  • [–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Those bastards got it easy ;-;

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