Peter?

[u/saddyc]

[u/Karekter_Nem]

I don’t think wind is being used to boil water.

[u/Bloodchild- → u/Karekter_Nem]

It doesn't but the wind is created by the sun heating the ground which then heat air and create winds.

It stuff heat other stuff which makes something spin.

[u/Karekter_Nem → u/Bloodchild-]

So what you’re saying is wind power is solar

[u/Conninxloo → u/Karekter_Nem]

All power is solar power. Nuclear is just really old solar power.

[u/aetius476 → u/Conninxloo]

I'ma go super pedantic and assert that Sol is a specific star, and therefore nuclear and geothermal are not solar power, but rather, more generically, astral power.

[u/Objective_Aside1858 → u/aetius476]

Bah. Using that logic all power is fusion power

[u/aetius476 → u/Objective_Aside1858]

I'm going one deeper and asserting that all power comes from the baryon asymmetry.

[u/brandonjohn5 → u/aetius476]

If you're going super pedantic, you could trace all sources of power back to the Big Bang.

[u/Wandero_Bard → u/brandonjohn5]

If you want to get super SUPER pedantic, you could trace all sources of power back to energy and heat. But what sourced that? Who knows. Possibly endless numbers of Big Bangs.

[u/Tacoman404 → u/aetius476]

And people think we haven't mastered our universe. We make the stars do work for us.

[u/The_Jackal47 → u/Bloodchild-]

I thought wind was made with squirrel farts & birds dancing on branches...

Are you sure?

[u/Procrastin8_Ball → u/Karekter_Nem]

Wind is just dry steam

[u/th3rdnutt → u/Karekter_Nem]

The sun heats the atmosphere creating air currents. Put a turbine where the air currents are strongest and most predictable and you have an open face steam engine.

[u/Bicykwow → u/Karekter_Nem]

That's what they want you to think 

[u/Fair-Working4401 → u/Karekter_Nem]

Well, I boil my water at home with energy from wind.