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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 day ago (30 children)

So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 18 hours ago (5 children)
  • Solar panels: Direct sky-spiciness to electricity conversion
  • Wind: Sky-spiciness made the air move
  • Hydroelectric: Sky-spiciness lifted the water up, gravity brings it down
  • Fossil fuels: Really old stored sky-spiciness from ancient plants
[–] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Geothermal: Incredibly old sky-spiciness from far, far away that Earth collected to slowly release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

And ultimately just used to heat water.

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