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Trust your training (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What's interesting to me about that phrase is that no one uses the word "powerhouse" for anything else any more, except maybe to call something powerful.

Since it's not the 1920s any more and we have an electrical grid and centralized power generation. We still sometimes do use temporary off-grid generators, but we no longer have any need for a dedicated word that means "building or shed that we keep our generators in".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The power generating stations near me are still called Power houses.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Power plant🌱

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, that's the word that everyone uses for the large generating stations that create power on a large scale like a manufacturing plant creates goods on a large scale.

Its rare for us to have "power houses" now, and when we do no one calls them that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Mitochondria is the solar farm of the cell.