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[-] AnarchoEngineer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 224 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

ACTUALLY ITS BOILING SODIUM!!… ~which then gets used to boil water~

[-] Akh@lemmy.world 134 points 1 day ago

I love that deep down, coal, gas, nuclear, this thing… all done to heat water, make steam, use steam to turn turbines…. We are just in a steampunk universe

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 8 points 16 hours ago

Well there hydro power, where we just skip the boiling part and have water turn turbines.

[-] snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 12 hours ago
[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 10 hours ago

terrible platform

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

sometimes birds turn turbines, what when they fall down with the water. also fish i guess, but i got a vendetta against the birds.

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