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[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)
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[–] WantSomeFreeAtoms@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 months ago

I had to laugh at this one lol

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Can someone explain the solar panels bit at the bottom? Is it because the creator of the meme is advocating that as a cooler method of energy, given that it doesn't use boiling water, or is it because the fusion reactor can utilise solar panels to convert the energy to electricity?

[–] mxeff@feddit.org 4 points 2 months 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.

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