Because the Sun is a giant fusion reactor.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 12 hours 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?
lemmyng@piefed.ca 12 hours ago
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Oh okay. The reactor will still use steam boiling though
naught101@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
That’s the setup for the joke
frank@sopuli.xyz 7 hours ago
Only maybe! DEC works similarly to how we collect energy in photovoltaics, and seems to be pretty promising
mxeff@feddit.org 4 hours 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.