c/showerthoughts · by testaccount789@sh.itjust.works · 114d

If you use electricity from NPP to heat your house, water or to cook, you're using the heat of uranium at your home.

A thought I genuinely had in shower. "Huh, the water is basically heated using uranium through a proxy."

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Naich@piefed.world · 11 pts · 114d (7 replies)

Uranium boils water which turns a turbine, the turbine makes electricity, the electricity powers your kettle, and your kettle boils the water. Obviously the best thing to do is to cut out all the messing around converting this to that, and have uranium powered kettles.

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 114d

A uranium powered kettle is straight out of the fallout universe

femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 114d (1 reply)

Every home could have a mini reactor and it would give you all the heat you need.

Thatuserguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 114d

For the rest of your life, even

saltnotsugar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 114d (2 replies)

This kettle goes up to 18,000 roentgen so you know it’s good.

justsomeguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 114d

[Slaps uranium kettle] This bad boy can h- [shockwave hits the camera]

AmidFuror@fedia.io · 3 pts · 114d

Not great, not terrible.

slazer2au@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 114d

Technically doesn't uranium boil one vessel of water, to then boil another vessel via a heat exchanger before turning the turbine?

So it takes 3 rounds to boil water for a cuppa?

IcedRaktajino@startrek.website · 7 pts · 114d

I'm about to have my house powered by fusion energy.

::: spoiler 'Splained I'm installing a PV system, and solar energy is just fusion power at a distance. :::

Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 114d

Add another proxy, and even a nuclear fission power plant is just using stored stellar fusion power.

So, let's just use it directly instead.

glassgost@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 114d (1 reply)

If you really think about it, all forms of our electricity production are solar powered, just not necessarily by our sun.

bright@piefed.social · 1 pts · 114d

I'm not sure if that's 100% accurate. I think hydrogen existed before stars