Comment on Gotta go fast

• ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  What? Hydroelectric power stations use gravity and the falling or flowing water makes the turbines turn.

  Thermal plants (nuclear, coal, gas), including solar thermal plants, use steam.

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  • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    He means water vapour, ie the rain cycle.

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    • Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s not steam, though.

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      • TheOctonaut@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I didn’t say it was a good quip

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      • anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        It probably was at some point.

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    • guy@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Would not like to be the technician working on the hydrostation where part of the rain cycle is steam

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      • anomnom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Another couple decades of oil wars and we’ll get there.

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    • ByteJunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Ooooooooh.

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  • Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    They use steam condensed in a pressurized environment

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• lauha@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And to be fair, those none steam sources, i.e. hydro, wind and solar are all just solar basically.

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