Comment on Reactor goes brrr

• SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait, it’s all steam engines?

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  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    👩‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀🔫 always has been

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Never got this meme honestly, I should figure it out sometime 🔫🧑‍🚀🔫🧑‍🚀

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      • fushuan@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        knowyourmeme.com/…/wait-its-all-ohio-always-has-b…

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  • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hydro, wind, solar, and wave/tide energy capture are not.

    The crazy part is photovoltaics are the only power source that doesn’t spin something to make electricity. Truly an outlier.

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    • vaionko@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      solar

      Except the ones that are. (Concentrated solar power)

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      • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        …and the fancy steam engine version of solar is probably greener to build that photovoltaics, since it’s basically just a boiler and some mirrors.

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    • boonhet@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Internal combustion engine based generators aren’t fancy steam engines either - however, they have a lot in common still. It’s still just a way to move around a shaft.

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    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Not entirely true, there is the thermoelectric generator too. Though it’s not too practical

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    • gandalf_der_12te@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s one more outlier though which is Electrochemical cell, like galvanic element or voltaic pile

      It was used around 1800 as a major electricity source, but I guess it quickly became uneconomical in 1866 or sth when the dynamo was invented.

      Disclaimer: I haven’t studied the history of electricity generation, I just happened to read the history of electricity article on Wikipedia once.

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      • Yondoza@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Great call! Completely forgot about batteries and potato power sources!

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    • Olhonestjim@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Which requires them to output DC rather than AC, so they require inverters to change it to AC. It’s handier for battery storage though.

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• A7thStone@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hydro is the most fancy steam engine since it waits for the water to recondense to make power.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Condensed steam.

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    • TachyonTele@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Has anyone tried using cold steam yet?

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      • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Scientists are twenty years away from cold steam power generation

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Wait so does that make wind power more or less fancy than hydro?

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    • evidences@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Air is a fluid, it’s hydrodynamics all the way down.

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      • idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Everything is a fluid. Sand is a fluid. Sand and water? Only sometimes.

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