• neidu3@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    77·
    2 days ago

    Yes. Water + spicy rocks. Everything else is solar power, which is also nuclear power, but with the spiciness in the sky instead.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      41·
      2 days ago

      Fun fact. Coal plants release more radioactive materials than nuclear plants.]

      Except the ones that blew up. Those ones were extra spicy.

      • chaogomu@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23·
        2 days ago

        Except, even then, an average coal plant will release more radioactive material over its lifetime than Fukushima did.

        It’s just Chernobyl that you have to top. And even then there are coal plants that come close.

        Now, it’s not apples to apples. Coal plants release uranium and thorium. Not ceasium and strontium.

        But yeah, never go swimming in a coal plant ash pit. For more than the obvious reasons.

        • anomnom@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10·
          1 day ago

          How many average coal plants per Chernobyl though. I suspect that number is surprising lower than the total number of coal plants.

    • Robust Mirror@aussie.zoneEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago
      • Solar panels: Direct sky-spiciness to electricity conversion
      • Wind: Sky-spiciness made the air move
      • Hydroelectric: Sky-spiciness lifted the water up, gravity brings it down
      • Fossil fuels: Really old stored sky-spiciness from ancient plants
    • jagungal@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      I mean, radioactive isotopes are formed in supernovae, so it’s really just solar power from a different sun, right?

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        21 hours ago

        It’s all gravity in the end. Or probably middle but I don’t know why gravity, so that’s as far as I can reduce it.

        Everything we see around us is just hydrogen trying to get closer to the middle of the biggest hydrogen party it can find in the general vicinity. And we were all once part of at least one massive party that eventually got a bit out of hand when we all tried to get so close together we bounced off of a neutron star before it collapsed into a black hole.