Nuclear power is just steampunk with magic rocks.
this post was submitted on 21 May 2026
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I'm an EE by schooling and I've worked in both gas turbine and wind power. Photovoltaics blow my fucking mind. Everything else is just spinning magnets to extract power. PVs are insanely cool
Take a look at reverse electro-dialysis.
It's pushing thermal energy into electricity directly by the force of entropy.
The idea .....
Send water on a 150 million kilometer pipeline to the sun to super heat it ... then pipe the steam back to power a turbine
Baby Dyson Sphere go brrr
dyson tube
I don't know why you made me laugh so much, thanks for that post.
I think it's because it turns the concept into something so low tech and banal
right? like a potato gun for space
You just described every rocket ever made by man.
Wouldn't even need to run it out that far and we don't have the material science to handle temperatures near the sun.
Where wind
Step 1: boil the ocean
It's also due to water being boiled. Just in a different, many steps removed manner.
Boiling water, obviously!
No, wind is spinning magnets. Everything except photovoltaics and fuel cells is spinning magnets. (Everything with boiling water is also spinning magnets)
There's peltier devices, too, which use heat traveling via different metals and maybe some sort of sorcery to generate a voltage.
Also teslacoils use a different mechanism (friction I believe), though that's a static voltage.
In theory, you could translate a magnet through a coil instead of just rotating it to produce a current. Lol spinning a ring magnet through a rounded coil could be a different way of using spinning magnets (assuming it isn't already done).
And wise-ass got outwiseassed. Chapeau
PS: you forgot to mention piezoelectricity
You could always spin some wire and let the magnets stay still if you wanna be different.
Well… if a wire moves in a magnetic field, a current is induced. If a current runs through a wire, it generates an electromagnetic field.
So in this case: spinning wire = spinning magnet
Also primary battery cells.
We're kinda just using magnets to push around other magnets remotely.
And then there's other stuff attached to those magnets.
The new supercritical CO2 generators are pretty cool. Pretty much the same thing but no water!
Well when you invent a new way to convert rotational energy into multi-phase AC please let us all know
Explosions?
Boil water and spin magnets
Lorents force go wheeeee
Turbine go vrrrrrr