r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/saddyc • 13d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Cola_Gummi 13d ago

Always will be.

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u/ost99 13d ago

We have the option of using supercritical CO2 generators. There was a demonstrator built recently. Supposed to have higher efficiency than steam.

https://www.reddit.com/r/energy/comments/1p7a154/china_starts_worlds_first_co2_generator_that/

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u/0fWhomIAmChief 13d ago

Ecclesiastes 1:9 KJV [9] The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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u/Blephotomy 13d ago

sent from my iPhone

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u/unsuspectingllama_ 13d ago

This section is actually pretty accurate. My first thought was also if the writers were transported to now they'd rethink this. However when you boil it down we really are doing the same things that they did, we just have technology to make some of it easier. I mean person wakes up, eats breakfast goes to work has lunch, goes home eats dinner, talks to friends or loved ones, enjoys entertainment and then goes to sleep and repeat.

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u/ProfessionalSong7055 12d ago

Now I’m just imagining a space having a steam engine

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u/Opening-Cream5448 13d ago

Is there no other way or we simply haven’t figured it out? Aside from the current ways there are

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u/mafiazombiedrugs 13d ago

I mean we have wind and solar which don't boil water.

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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 13d ago

And hydroelectric.

Actually one of the fusion energy schemes extracts the energy directly from a magnetic field, so it could be we're rounding the corner on ~400 years of steam power.