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FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Can someone explain the solar panels bit at the bottom? Is it because the creator of the meme is advocating that as a cooler method of energy, given that it doesn’t use boiling water, or is it because the fusion reactor can utilise solar panels to harvest energy?

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lemmyng@piefed.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Because the Sun is a giant fusion reactor.

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- FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oh okay. The reactor will still use steam boiling though
  
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  - naught101@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s the setup for the joke
    
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  - frank@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Only maybe! DEC works similarly to how we collect energy in photovoltaics, and seems to be pretty promising
    
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion?wp…
    
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mxeff@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
My the actual intention of this joke, was to point out, that even if fusion will make again use of boiling water, we already have more “suffisticated” methods to generate electricity (like e.g. solar cells via the photovoltaic effect), that make not use of the great equalizer make wheel spin fast.

But based on many comments here (and yours is not one of them), this failed.

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