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[โ€“] SpaceNoodle 51 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Wait, it's all steam engines?

[โ€“] RedditWanderer 64 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

๐Ÿ”ซ ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€ always has been

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never got this meme honestly, I should figure it out sometime ๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿš€

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[โ€“] RestrictedAccount 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What?!? It was always just a meme?!?

I thought it was a reference I didnโ€™t get because Iโ€™m an old.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Always has been ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ”ซ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿš€.

But actually that article is pretty thin. I believe it was originally a joke about how many astronauts are from Ohio, so they'd get to space and it would turn out the whole planet was Ohio. It is in fact a reference to real world thing, it's just a very obscure and absurd reference.

[โ€“] [email protected] 33 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Hydro, wind, solar, and wave/tide energy capture are not.

The crazy part is photovoltaics are the only power source that doesn't spin something to make electricity. Truly an outlier.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

solar

Except the ones that are. (Concentrated solar power)

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

...and the fancy steam engine version of solar is probably greener to build that photovoltaics, since it's basically just a boiler and some mirrors.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Internal combustion engine based generators aren't fancy steam engines either - however, they have a lot in common still. It's still just a way to move around the spinny bits of an alternator/generator/dynamo/whatever

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Not entirely true, there is the thermoelectric generator too. Though it's not very practical

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's one more outlier though which is Electrochemical cell, like galvanic element or voltaic pile

It was used around 1800 as a major electricity source, but I guess it quickly became uneconomical in 1866 or sth when the dynamo was invented.

Edit: wait yes, it actually says this in the second paragraph of the linked article:

The entire 19th-century electrical industry was powered by batteries related to Volta's (e.g. the Daniell cell and Grove cell) until the advent of the dynamo (the electrical generator) in the 1870s.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Great call! Completely forgot about batteries and potato power sources!

[โ€“] Olhonestjim 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which requires them to output DC rather than AC, so they require inverters to change it to AC. It's handier for battery storage though.