It’s great for nuclear reactors. Hot rock make turbine go brrr
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empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Water and steam just too goddamn convenient. Super high latent heat so it can move a ton of energy with a quick phase change, works at reasonable pressures and temperatures, stays liquid all the time when you want it to, and it’s so readily available as to be damn near free. Super cool!
Car@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Steve@startrek.website 5 months ago
Best explanation of nuclear energy I’ve ever heard
Steve@startrek.website 5 months ago
Nuclear energy is solar too
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
In the same way that hydrogen, given sufficient time, turns into people
anothercatgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
nah not solar, the energy comes not from Sol the star, but from dead stars of past.
wewbull@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Him: Our sun is a nuclear reactor too.
You: our nuclear reactors are made of dead suns.
Both right, yet disagreeing.
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
also almost non-corrosive, non-toxic, doesn’t damage ozone layer, zero global warming potential, non-flammable etc (lots of organic rankine cycle fluids fail one or more of these. tradeoff is utilization of lower temperature sources)
marcos@lemmy.world 5 months ago
This one isn’t right. Nobody will complain about you releasing it, but it’s a quite strong global warming gas.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Very strong GWP, but it does this cool thing where it condenses when it hits colder air and falls back to the ground in liquid state, thus removing itself from the atmosphere…
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh sure … blame it on the rain.
something_random_tho@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tell me more about this incredible process. Does it have a name?
Belgdore@lemm.ee 5 months ago
But it can be contained and condensed for reused.