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[–] [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 44 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!