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I know this is supposed to be a joke, but it’s important to understand how it really works:
- particles from the sun hit the solar panel
- the panel accelerates those particles, which creates fissile material
- the fissile material is the used in a traditional nuclear reactor
- the nuclear reaction finally heats water
Giving us steam, to buy games from.
Exactly. And because the process is not perfect, the steam still contains some stray protons, which allows us to play windows games on linux.
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That stray proton is enough to power CERN.
It’s always a steam turbine?
🌎🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀Wait till this dude learns about mitochondria
Where is the shitpost, solar panels do work by heating up water, unlike photovoltaics.
Solar panels are good to get a baseline amount of heated water for your home.
Solar panels do not, solar thermal conversion does, but they use mirrors.
My cousin (not Vinny) has solar panels to heat his water to like 50 C all year long.
And also photovoltaics for electricity.
There are also combo units that’s solar and PV in one, supposedly the water cooling down the PV panels should help keep it at optimal temperatures
I’ve seen non-photovoltaic solar panels for heating pools as well which is just a coiled black hose on a black panel.
Around here a bunch of people used to have a summer shower setup, which was just a black barrel filled with water up high
Because I think the graphic missed the parts about the MC4 cables & the solar charge controller & the Lithium battery & the power inverter, a few little details like that.
That would be for photovoltaics not solar, no?
This is not how solar panels work.
Are you calling Lemmy Shitpost liars?
Each panel has it’s own little steam turbine inside it in reality.
Some do. Not photovoltaic panels but there are plants designed around this principle.
i was coming in here to say that while this post is a joke, there is a non zero number of solar farms that use hyperbolic mirrors and glass tubes to super heat water generating pressure to spin a steam turbine
If only we could figure out a way to harness the power of the Giant Fan on the other side of the sun.
Lotta loss in that system.
Should’ve put the water tank on the left to avoid loss
CCGT - A gas powered jet engine but instead of spinning to produce thrust it spins to produce electricity with a turbine. Then the hot exhaust is used to boil water to make steam to spin a turbine.
It seems like we could make this a lot more efficient by using pistons and having the sunlight push the pistons, turning a generator.
big solar has kept the truth about free power generation hidden for years.
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If you plug a power strip into each one of those empty plugs, you could power the whole house!
Good idea! We’ll just need some steam turbines to help sunlight move the pistons in order to reach peak efficiency!
I want us to build a Dyson swarm which is a bunch of ginormous pistons with attached even more ginormous solar sails. The solar sails pull the pistons which make generator go brr, and we become a K-2 civilization.
Appart from using solar power to melt salt as a energy storage solution, you also have water cooled solar panels that store that heat as warm water.
Just like modded Minecraft.
I think you forgot the oil powered generator under the boiling water.
It’s coal powered, so it can double as a bbq grill
Can you connect that to ai data center that can generate an image of Trump with Clinton?
What about all the gay rainbow light spectrum that powers the entire thing?
