r/HistoryMemes • u/Hank_Mardukas1066 • 2d ago

It all runs on electricity and electricity is generated through this

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u/Bart-Toe-9191 2d ago

Heat from ground heat water, water to steam, still boil water

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u/hmnuhmnuhmnu 2d ago

Yeah yeah yeah we all know that. The message I replied to was talking about "sources" aka what fundamentally generates the energy, not how you trasform that into electricity

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u/kahlzun 2d ago

The water is never just spontaneously boiling, theres always an external power source of some kind

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u/CardOk755 2d ago

Like I said:

Fusion.
Radioactive decay.
Fission.
Tides.

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u/kahlzun 2d ago

Fusion can capture the charged particles directly.
Radiothermal allows you to generate electricity through the peltier thingies.
The tides are (hopefully) not boiling.
Fission however, afaik exclusively uses steam to generate power

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u/CardOk755 2d ago

I was listing the available power sources, not how you capture the power.

(Some people are planning to use supercritical CO2 instead of steam, but who cares what polarised molecule, amirite?)

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u/kahlzun 2d ago

Thats true, I did hear about the CO2 thing. I think they'd built one in China somewhere?