A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.
Pssh, you guys are still on gravity-fusion? My ship has magnetically-bottled antihydrogen, which is carefully fed into a specialized reaction vessel that annihilates it with ordinary hydrogen to produce unbelievable amounts of heat...
...which is then used to boil water and force the steam through a turbine.
I just put some saddles on this bacteria that eats photons.
Discworld ftl tech right here
I invented a new power generation method!
Amazing, is it actually new, or is it steam again
... it's steam again.
"It's a good power generation method, sir"
looks inside
boiling water
> ask if new generator is spooky or wet
> they don't understand
> show the diagram
> "it's a good generator mx"
> go inside
> it's wet
It's like how evolution's perfect form is a crab. Energy's perfect form is spicy water bois
Fun fact: crabs are only the underwater peak of evolution. Land mammals seem to converge into anteaters, and plants into trees.
If mammals want to survive the next 100 million years we need to see the writing on the wall and evolve into crabeaters
I can't I have a shellfish allergy.
Do solar panels operate in this way?
Yes, inside of every solar panel is water and tiny turbines. The sun heats the water, when it turns to steam it spins the turbines to generate electricity.
It's always a relief when someone doesn't take everything so literally
minas tirith lacks power! sound the turbines!
I must have edited my comment as you were typing yours.
just like wind turbine right?
Wind turbines use whales and birds, I think it is like in Norse mythology where the wolves Sköll and Hati chase the Sun and moon. But with wind you have whales chasing birds while they are strapped to the blades, this causes them to spin and that generates wind, which fans the flames of fires to boil water and that creates steam.
You’ll never believe where wind comes from…
Depends on the type of solar panel. PV, no. Otherwise, yes.
Solar panals provide direct electromotive force. Pretty sure wind and hydro do too. Solar furnaces boil water.
Solar, wind, tidal, RTG, DEC fusion are all options without steam
Wind and tidal is still just turbines.
Yeah. One uses the passage of a gas over rotating blades. The other uses water as it flows.
Neither use the passage of gaseous water, so theyre totally different!
/s
Does hydropower count as cold steam?
Well I guess all wind power is also steam at a very low concentration heated by a fusion reaction.
In a way. The energy is, in part, used to cook my food which creates an proton gradient across the inner membrane of my mitochondria which then forces those protons through a turbine.
With the take off of co2 turbines how is this still a meme?
Super Critical Support for our compressed CO2 turbine comrades.
2026 we put a helicopter on mars and still no power crystals
Lots of mars stuff is RTG powered, so no steam. if it makes you feel better it's kind of like a power crystal in they metal is crystal...
It’s to boil water again, isn’t it