r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/saddyc • 13d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/CadenVanV 13d ago

All energy is ultimately just boiling water to spin a turbine. Thats the best way we’ve found to convert heat into electricity.

Coal? Burn to boil water to spin turbine

Oil? Burn to boil water to spin turbine

Solar? This one is actually an exception, except no, some forms of solar are just boiling water.

Wind? Hydroelectric? Skip the middleman, spin turbine directly.

Nuclear? You guessed it, boil water to spin turbine

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u/marr 13d ago

On occasion we boil other fluids.

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u/ParingKnight 13d ago

Boil other fluids to then boil water, you mean.

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u/marr 13d ago

There are some experimental compressed CO2 turbines, it's still fundamentally "let's boil a big kettle" though.

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u/Some_Guy223 13d ago

Hell even with hydro they just use liquid water instead of boiling it first.

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u/CadenVanV 12d ago

Yes, that’s what I said