I think Superman would be more august to be part of humanity's energy transiton. Source, I'm not a comic book reader, so I can just make stuff up about the characters.

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Superman can turn the earth fast enough to make time go backwards. He could easily do that to a massive turbine. Imagine all the people he’s indirectly killed by not doing this.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure there's a different smbc about that.

[–] bizarroland@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course, they conveniently overlook the fact that no material is strong enough to withstand Superman's maximum energy output, so there's a lot of wasted potential left on the table.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Doesn't need to. Ask superman to put a giant ball of salt into space, and then melt it with his laser vision. We're talking moon sized. I don't know if the infrared radiation coming off would cook earth, but assuming it doesn't, we now have a giant ball we can harness the heat energy from from centuries. If it cools, we can have him heat it again.

[–] redsand@infosec.pub 3 points 2 days ago

Ok math nerds how big of a flywheel does superman need, how fast does it spin and does it have any effect on gravity or the earth's rotation?