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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month 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] 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Geothermal?

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

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

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 1 points 1 month ago

And ultimately just used to heat water.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

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