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[–] Anticorp 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)
[–] disguy_ovahea 15 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 13 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

"This is you as an old man. I'm ugly and dead alone."

[–] RubberElectrons 9 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

There are some fusion designs that use direct energy conversion.

Some work went into fission designs as well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_energy_conversion

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

And then there are thermonuclear generators

[–] stupidcasey 8 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

Nuclear power is the refining distilling and enriching of uranium into unstable isotopes and higher elements, boiling water is one small step in converting nuclear energy into electrical energy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

into unstable isotopes

No, they were there all along.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I heard that somewhere in the US there were parts of a nuclear power plant being delivered by steam train. So that’s basically one steam engine supplying another! (^^,)

I can’t seem to find an article about it anywhere, so it might be an urban legend :(

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

Given that the first commercial nuclear power plants in the US were coming online in the late 1950s, that's entirely possible. Steam trains were well on their way out by then, but there were still a few hauling freight around.

Fun adjacent fact: even when the British Empire had moved off of wind sails and into coal, those coal ships didn't have the range to possibly cover the entire Empire. Coal stations were setup around the world, and the coal had to be transported by sail. The previous technology helps get the next generation technology going.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Sail ships continued to be used well into the 20th century. The absolute last purely sail powered warship served during WW1!

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Big Steam is playing us for suckers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

They're just spinning us in circles!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Sheng Wang is hilarious! Seriously, if you like comedy then watch his stuff

[–] [email protected] 9 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Both Jimmy O. Yang and Sheng Wang are hilarious, but you should recognize that they are two different people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The only Asian standup comedian guy with long hair I know of is Sheng Wang, so i thought the pic was him when he was young. My bad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Sheng Wang had short hair when he first got into the standup game:

https://youtu.be/Qvo9stCkbyA

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

"what if fire... But... MOAR"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

That's from building nuclear weapons though, not power

[–] Sam_Bass 0 points 6 hours ago

The issue is that boiling water is inside human bodies

[–] LovableSidekick 2 points 11 hours ago

Or melting salt, or whatever. But yes it's just making stuff hot.

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