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[–] mxeff@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

My the actual intention of this joke, was to point out, that even if fusion will make again use of boiling water, we already have more "suffisticated" methods to generate electricity (like e.g. solar cells via the photovoltaic effect), that make not use of the great equalizer make wheel spin fast.

But based on many comments here (and yours is not one of them), this failed.