• @ThePyroPython
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    1392 months ago

    So a nucler reactor is just a kettle with an extra spicy heating element?

    • @[email protected]
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      812 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        432 months ago

        Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]

        Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.

        • @chaogomu
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          212 months ago

          Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

          It’s just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

          Now, it’s not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

          But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

          • @[email protected]
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            92 months ago

            How many average coal plants per Chernobyl though. I suspect that number is surprising lower than the total number of coal plants.

      • Robust Mirror
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        162 months ago
        • 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
      • @jagungal
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        122 months ago

        I mean, radioactive isotopes are formed in supernovae, so it’s really just solar power from a different sun, right?

        • @_stranger_
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          132 months ago

          it’s spicy rocks all the way down.

        • @Buddahriffic
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          22 months ago

          It’s all gravity in the end. Or probably middle but I don’t know why gravity, so that’s as far as I can reduce it.

          Everything we see around us is just hydrogen trying to get closer to the middle of the biggest hydrogen party it can find in the general vicinity. And we were all once part of at least one massive party that eventually got a bit out of hand when we all tried to get so close together we bounced off of a neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.

    • @darthelmet
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      562 months ago

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

      • @ThePyroPython
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        372 months ago

        Taste: slightly metallic, not great, not terrible.

        • @ThePyroPython
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          152 months ago

          That moment when you take a drag of your Blue Raspberry vape and the dosimeter next to you maxes out.

        • Cyrus Draegur
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          52 months ago

          The same guy who deliberately messed with the vending machine will also intentionally misplace the delivery of the skull gun aug module, smh.

          • ✺roguetrick✺
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            2 months ago

            The best part of this game is that this conspiracy theory is incorrect. Fema killing Americans, illuminati, majestic 7, area 51, MIB: all real. Workplace persecution for a distrusted wounded war veteran?: crazed paranoia

    • @[email protected]
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      252 months ago

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

      • @captainlezbian
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        92 months ago

        Reflective solar is normal at least. But photovoltaics are weird. Even weirder is that they’re LEDs backwards, and the fact that transistors just are like that is why they’re encased in black plastic

        • @reinei
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          52 months ago

          Unless you WANT your transistor to be this way and use it so you put an actual led inside the plastic as well to mess with (i.e. turn on and off) the transistor!

          Also I would argue that wind could also be considered ‘steam’ turning a turbine. It’s just vapour pressure ‘steam’ with a LOT of other pollutants which somehow increase the efficiency!

      • @BleatingZombie
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        62 months ago

        What about hydro electric? It uses cold steam

        • @PapaStevesy
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          42 months ago

          Ooh, cold steam burns are the worst!

    • @NocturnalMorning
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      52 months ago

      That’s not a spicy challenge id be willing to try.