Confused_Emus comments on How to cast lightning

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] bright@piefed.social 10 points 2 weeks ago* (2 children)

* except for solar panels

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[–] albbi@piefed.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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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[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 5 points 2 weeks ago

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.

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[–] Lupus108@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

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.

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[+] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 1 point 2 weeks ago

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