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[–] ThePyroPython 106 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Most power generation is just steam spinning turbines. Solar’s just weird. Wind cuts out the steam loop.

[–] BleatingZombie 2 points 54 minutes ago (1 children)

What about hydro electric? It uses cold steam

[–] PapaStevesy 2 points 34 minutes ago

Ooh, cold steam burns are the worst!

[–] captainlezbian 5 points 5 hours ago

Reflective solar is normal at least. But photovoltaics are weird. Even weirder is that they’re LEDs backwards, and the fact that transistors just are like that is why they’re encased in black plastic

[–] [email protected] 54 points 12 hours ago (3 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] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 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] 2 points 42 minutes ago

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]

Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.

[–] chaogomu 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

It's just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

Now, it's not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

How many average coal plants per Chernobyl though. I suspect that number is surprising lower than the total number of coal plants.

[–] jagungal 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I mean, radioactive isotopes are formed in supernovae, so it's really just solar power from a different sun, right?

[–] _stranger_ 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

it's spicy rocks all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

All power is nuclear power when you keep digging, whether rocks come into play or not!

[–] darthelmet 53 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

Not spicy. Everyone knows nuclear power is lemon-lime flavored.

[–] ThePyroPython 34 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 12 hours ago

A plausible Nile Red quote.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Cherenkov: The blue raspberry of nuclear radiation

[–] ThePyroPython 12 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

That moment when you take a drag of your Blue Raspberry vape and the dosimeter next to you maxes out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] chaogomu 5 points 9 hours ago

Adding more radiation to tobacco. Sure.

But slightly serious here. The actual mechanism of about 75% of tobacco related cancer, is the fact that tobacco leaves bioaccumulate natural radioactive elements from the soil.

If you smoke, you have radioactive lead and polonium in your lungs.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

No! I vanted orange!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The same guy who deliberately messed with the vending machine will also intentionally misplace the delivery of the skull gun aug module, smh.

[–] roguetrick 2 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The best part of this game is that this conspiracy theory is incorrect. Fema killing Americans, illuminati, majestic 7, area 51, MIB: all real. Workplace persecution for a distrusted wounded war veteran?: crazed paranoia

[–] NocturnalMorning 5 points 12 hours ago

That's not a spicy challenge id be willing to try.