Random Thought Thread

Nathan the Machinist said:
Well, here's the situation right?

You want heat in your house

So the power plant is going to take the heat, from burning coal

The heat that you want


And use it to boil water into steam.

Due to the latent heat of water, it takes a lot of energy to boil water

That energy is largely just lost

And then they use the steam pressure to turn a turbine

A lot of that energy is lost too

And then this turbine converts rotational mechanical energy into electrical energy. This step is actually pretty efficient.

And then it is transmitted along power lines to your house, with some loss

Where you take all of this carefully crafted electricity and subject it to a controlled short-circuit to make the heat that you wanted. That was present in the coal in the first place. But you threw most of it away.

Electric resistive heat is ironic because it is both 100% efficient and also the least efficient use of electricity possible, because it does no work other than create heat.
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So you just described how they use our tax dollars i think.

Just replace money with electricity
 
^^

Nah nah, dude.

If it was really like with taxes,

imagine that instead of coal, they were burning actual money.Straight-up $100 bills.

That’s exactly how it is with taxes.

And picture this: in the furnace, about half the money just gets burned up completely.Then, with whatever’s left of those bills, they stick little wind turbines on top,hoping those turbines will somehow generate electricity.
 
I like the fact that, at the end of the day, the most efficient way to get energy — literally for anything — is just to burn something.

And you know what’s even funnier?

That’s pretty much how it’s gonna stay, no matter how much time passes 😅

Nuclear energy is solid too.

Basically, it’s just explosions, right?

You get what I mean?

Burning something or exploding something — that’s essentially the best energy.

By the way, back in 2022–2023 I bought shares in a uranium energy company, and they went up almost 8 times.

No joke, I genuinely think the real future is nuclear energy.

Sure, it can blow up, but damn, even Homer Simpson managed to handle it all.

I’d trust the safety management to someone like:

tinfoil hat timmy tinfoil hat timmy
 
Moorik said:
I like the fact that, at the end of the day, the most efficient way to get energy — literally for anything — is just to burn something.

And you know what’s even funnier?

That’s pretty much how it’s gonna stay, no matter how much time passes 😅

Nuclear energy is solid too.

Basically, it’s just explosions, right?

You get what I mean?

Burning something or exploding something — that’s essentially the best energy.

By the way, back in 2022–2023 I bought shares in a uranium energy company, and they went up almost 8 times.

No joke, I genuinely think the real future is nuclear energy.

Sure, it can blow up, but damn, even Homer Simpson managed to handle it all.

I’d trust the safety management to someone like:

tinfoil hat timmy tinfoil hat timmy
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Isnt nuclear energy just steam pushing a turbine around?

They dip uranium in water and it boils the water and creates steam?
Am I wrong?

I wouldnt doubt it.
 
tinfoil hat timmy said:
Isnt nuclear energy just steam pushing a turbine around?

They dip uranium in water and it boils the water and creates steam?
Am I wrong?

I wouldnt doubt it.
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Hey, you already know way more than I do.
I’ve always known and still know this is the future.
It’s definitely better than solar.
And cleaner than any other energy source.
Relax — this much knowledge is plenty to handle safety at one of these plants.
 
tinfoil hat timmy tinfoil hat timmy and Moorik Moorik in this thread.

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Moorik said:
Hey, you already know way more than I do.
I’ve always known and still know this is the future.
It’s definitely better than solar.
And cleaner than any other energy source.
Relax — this much knowledge is plenty to handle safety at one of these plants.
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Unless I buy into it then watch the sector fall into a black hole financially
 
Dude, if you ever decide to invest in uranium, please — just buy the stocks, or at least some kind of paper that says it belongs to you.
I extremely do NOT recommend keeping it in a safe at home.
(Not financial advice)
As soon as you buy, I go short.
 
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