https://interestingengineering.com/energy/steam-driven-nuclear-fusion-reactor
“In a global first, Richmond, Canada-headquartered fusion energy company General Fusion achieved the first-ever plasma in a reactor driven by steam.”
It is somewhat bewildering to realize that we have come all this way in technology but somewhere something is always turning water into steam to drive a piston of some sort.
Was an old joke.
I invented a revolutionary new power generation!
“is it actually new or just steam”
“… steam”.
All power is steam power, fossil fuels are burned to boil water. Heck nuclear reactors are also just boiling water to create steam.
It’s all Steampunk but we grew out of our punk phase :P
Solar is (usually) not. Couldn’t fit a steam turbine in a calculator.
“Couldn’t fit a steam turbine in a calculator.”
Not with that attitude you can’t.
Thats pretty cool. Using steam pistons to help compress the fuel enough for fusion, from which that heat gets used to make different steam to then make electricity.
Murca: let’s use frickin lazor beams!
Canada: magnets boil water go brrrrrrrr
ruzzians use pencils. That’s how every NASA joke ends. * correction to a grammatical error, ruzzians is all lower case regardless of word position. Same for putin.
Pencils are problematic in space and NASA didn’t spend millions developing it
Sorry had to “ahem actually” your joke :p
Nah, the joke is that NASA spent millions on a positive pressure space pen…the ruzzians used a pencil. Lol, don’t be trying to fix history that doesn’t need fixing. The ruzzians also invaded Ukraine and lost.
The joke is factually incorrect. The Soviets used pens because graphite and pencil shavings are problematic for delicate equipment in microgravity.
Also the Soviet government has little to no relation to the capitalist oligarchy that currently runs Russia so the comment about Ukraine is irrelevant.
