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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by mydeskistoosm on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:07PM (#28900870)
Waterwheel, then, no?
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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by anonporridge on Sunday October 17, 2021 @08:45PM (#28901118)
A waterwheel is just hydro power, which is itself just an indirect form of solar power.
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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by lostapathy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:47PM (#28901457)
Technically every form of power is an indirect form of solar power.
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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by eru on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:57PM (#28901518)
Not fission nor geothermal nor tidal power, nor fusion, if it ever arrives. But most of the other ones.

(You can say that some of them, like fission, rely on heavy metals produced sort-of in a star. But still that wasn't from our sun.)

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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by xxpor on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:54PM (#28901500)
Not nuclear! :)
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Re:The booming business of knitting together the world’s ele... by lostapathy on Sunday October 17, 2021 @09:57PM (#28901522)
All elements used in fission reactors can only come to be due to supernovae. So I guess not from our sun, but another star.
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