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[–] JackbyDev 95 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Reminds me of the meme using the Donnie Darko psychologist template.

Donnie: I made a new form of power generation.

Psychologist: New or steam?

Donnie: Steam...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The only truly new method of power generation we've made in the last 100 years has been photovoltaic cells. Everything else is just finding new ways to make turbines spin.

[–] JackbyDev 1 points 18 hours ago

I've actually seen this same meme used in the opposite way where they did discover a new way but I don't remember enough information to find it. And I don't think it was talking about solar.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Steam implies water! What if we used some OTHER phase-change working fluid? :D

||(No idea what, though. my question is implied with a playful tone and is at least 50% facetious; any actual discussion that might result would be little more than a pleasant coincidence)||

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You want to see weird water look up super critical boilers. That stuff was nasty. A regular steam leak will set things on fire. That stuff would explode a broom. We looked for the leaks with straw brooms. You can't see steam in normal conditions. Only its effects.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Blech, I've heard stories in my industrial automation days of people being clipped by invisible high pressure steam leaks. No frickin thank you, regular stovetop steam jacks me up frequently enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Well, now this is on my list of invisible things that scare me:

  • Radiation
  • Methanol fires
  • Supercritical steam jets
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago
  • Carbon monoxide
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 hours ago

The regular ones will kill you as well. Boiling water on a stove is nothing compared to steam under pressure.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 23 hours ago

It seems you need to learn more about prions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
  • Predators with cloaking devices
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not quite invisible but you could also splash and wade into a pool of strong acid thinking it was water, during what first seemed like a somewhat routine FUBAR maintenance situation...filling your boots etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

At paper mills the fear is caustic pools filled with bases.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

The weird man-lifts used to get a side eye from me

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Molten salt?

We can then use compressed CO2 in the place of steam to drive the turbine.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Like Dr. Pepper?