Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

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

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

Steam implies water! What if we used some OTHER phase-change working fluid? :D

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The only truly new method of power generation we've made in the last 100 years has been photovoltaic cells. Everything else is just finding new ways to make turbines spin.

We discovered a banger like 400 years ago and have held on tight until right about now with wind/solar/hydro.

Still going to be using them geothermal/fission/fusion for at least another 100 years though.

We have rocks that do math, transmit electricity, and fly us through the sky.

When you get reductive about the natural sciences it all just boils down to applied physics which is applied mathematics.

But engineering and technology? Applied geology.

(/s because I’m not going to acknowledge that geology is applied chemistry and so on)

Wind turbines also.

But some solar does focus it on a tower to make steam to drive a turbine.

Yeah, who would have guessed that modernity was invented by someone who stuck magnets to a fidget spinner and strapped it to a boiler.

Errich, is the refrigerator running? This is Mike Hunt, and he's a rich.

Eric Bachman, this is your mother. You are not my son.

Big Steam is playing us for suckers!

But it’s one of the most important steps because it’s where the actual electricity comes from.