Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by meowster on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:16AM
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The energy that made those rocks warm, came from spinning other rocks really fast.
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Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by teruakohatu on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @12:50AM
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I might be missing the joke, but it mostly comes from burning rocks (coal), shining sunlight on rocks, water flowing downhill or wind/gas/steam spinning metal.
Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by tsimionescu on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @05:39AM
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With the exception of photovoltaic cells, all the other ways we generate electricity ultimately generate the electricity by spinning a dynamo - directly for hydro and wind, and through boiling water to steam for fossil, most solar plants (which use mirrors to heat water in pipes), nuclear, geothermal. Not sure if fusion would generate the electricity directly or also heat up water to spin up some magnets.
Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by kaibee on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @10:05AM
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Fusion uses the extreme heat generated by the fusion reaction to... boil some water and run it through a turbine.
Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by p1necone on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:05AM
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All of those energy sources are then somehow converted into spinning rocks (magnets) really fast to convert them into electricity though.
Re:How did so many Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup players miss su...
by ben_w on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @03:35AM
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All but one of them, though PV is quantum magic and rather more mind-bending for most people than non-euclidian geometry was for Lovecraft.