All of humanities technological advancements can be summed up in ever more complex ways to boil water
I think to be more general it boils down to just oxidate stuff.
/pun intended
Boil shit, burn shit, and blow shit up. Humans in a nut shell.
That's all "burn shit".
Most of the biggest advances in technology is just about moving liquids. Rocket science is really just large scale HVAC.
Oh boy just wait till you hear how fossil fuels work
That's just steam power with extra steps!
I've got bad news for ya bruv
Wait till you find out how nuclear fusion makes electricity
You mean, how it will in 20 years?
Perpetually so
It's like Musk time. In 20 years it'll only be 20 years away.
We can do it now, just haven't found a way to scale it and make it economical yet.
ITER is doing a great job on that front
There's actually two (at least that I know of) ways for fusion to generate electricity, this is a newer one https://youtu.be/uRaQLZaaHWo?si=DTwV26inm1pyrYn8
Don't leave us ice cold.
Our entire society* has been based on burning things. Then we progressed to... burning atoms.
(*Exceptions I can think of is solar, wind, hydro.)
Then we're leaching off the sun burning atoms.
Ohhhhh!
Solar farms did start out as using the sun to boil water. Basically mirrors redirecting light to a central point to super-heat a pipe flowing with water.
Theres actually been a major increase in solar thermal power stations in the last few years
Oh so that's what that big central tower in New Vegas was. I never put two and two together.
ACKSHUALLY you're not burning atoms in a nuclear reaction. You're creating a chain reaction of neutrons colliding with Uranium isotopes. No combustion.
To be fair, the atoms were going to burn anyhow. We just clumped them together to make better use of them.
They can't all be photonic inversion.
I like RTGs way more
Well Rotating a rotor on a generator is the most convenient way to make electricity with parts that last a long amount of time. Also doesn't help that we use AC power while other sources like photovoltaic produce DC power which needs to be converted to be used.
If you don't like that don't look up PWRs, they don't boil water to boil water.
Helion Energy seem to solve this problem
Don't forget about the deadly waste product!
Deadly, horrible waste product that is processed and made so safe you can literally kiss it. But don't let me get in the way of fearmongering.
Kyle Hill has done so much good in combating the absolute minefield of fearmongering and misinformation surrounding Nuclear power.
As long as you play by the rules, it's incredibly safe. It's when you start taking shortcuts and start fucking around that you find out... and there are plenty of things more likely to kill you than nuclear.
Not to mention coal also releases radioactive particles too, but instead of being safely contained they're released into the air you breathe.
But hey, it's invisible, so it's less scary!
I see your youtuber, and raise you Scientific American with quotes by actual doctors and nuclear technicians. In detail, the article explores all of the myriad ways that nuclear power is the opposite of kissable. My fav? Illinois isn't on a fault line, but they send all of their spent nuclear fuel to Nevada, where it is stored on a fault line.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nuclear-waste-lethal-trash-or-renewable-energy-source/
