Turbine go brrrr

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• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  * Looks up *

  * Ahem *

  Nuclear fusion existed well before physists.

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• Murse@slrpnk.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t find it for the life of me… Describing a web comic vs actually posting it always feels like a flop, but…

  Aliens abduct a physicist, who doesn’t seem to give much of a damn about the abduction but is instead enthused to learn about the alien tech on board, so they give him a tour of the ship. They get to the power reactor and start dropping a bunch of sci-fi jumbo about “We harness dark matter to… (sci-fi Ruth Goldberg machine) …and finally, we use the heat it generates to boil water and crank a turbine!!”

  *Physicist drops to his knees in despair and let’s out a dramatic ‘noooooo!’

   

  Paraphrasing heavily due to having shit memory. I thought it was a SMBC comic, but… /shrug.

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  • Everyday0764@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you did a good job i remember the comic

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I was talking with my wife about a comic similar to that not even three hours ago so if you find it let me know cause I want to show her too.

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• expatriado@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  still waiting for someone to demonstrate a more efficient power transfer solution

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  • nomecks@lemmy.wtf ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You’re in luck. Supercritical CO2 turbines are a thing now, and they’re way more efficient because they don’t involve a phase change.

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    • chickenf622@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Got any sources on that? I would love to learn about some new tech in electricity generation.

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Helios is trying to build a fusion reactor that harvests the energy through electro magnetic induction.

    youtu.be/HlNfP3iywvI

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• Cort@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even wind power still turns a generator, but solar is just completely different than everything else

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  • vodka@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    But what if… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentrated_solar_power

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• pntha@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  fission. aside from the fact physicists didn’t invent either, we’ve yet to boil any water with fusion.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give me a concave mirror and I’ll change that

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Best I can do is a convex lens.

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  • FiniteBanjo@feddit.online ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’ve boiled tons of water with it, but there have been no functional turbines involved in a ten mile radius.

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    • Flipper@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve got to disappoint you. We’ve boiled water with solar to crank a turbine for electricity.

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• WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=M55XzxjmON0&t=

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