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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 day ago (30 children)

So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (13 children)

Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago (2 children)
  • Solar panels: Direct sky-spiciness to electricity conversion
  • Wind: Sky-spiciness made the air move
  • Hydroelectric: Sky-spiciness lifted the water up, gravity brings it down
  • Fossil fuels: Really old stored sky-spiciness from ancient plants
[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

Geothermal?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

A lot of that heat comes from decay of radioactive isotopes deep in the Earth. Still spicy rocks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Geothermal: Incredibly old sky-spiciness from far, far away that Earth collected to slowly release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

And ultimately just used to heat water.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago

Nuclear: the sky spiciness got too spicy and turned into spicy rocks

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