• Skullgrid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    68·
    2 months ago

    Evolution: everything turns into a crab.
    Engineering : everything turns into steam which powers a turbine

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

    Till we come up with a better way to generate alternating current than spinning a magnet inside a coil, it will always be turbines

    • Emi@ani.socialEnglish
      13·
      2 months ago

      I wonder if we would even switch to some different way of electricity if we found a new better way to generate and use it but require making new infrastructure.

      • Kirp123@lemmy.worldEnglish
        27·
        2 months ago

        There are a bunch of different ways to generate electricity that we already know about.

        The photovoltaic effect which is used in solar panels generates electricity from light. The thermoelectric effect which uses the temperature difference between the two faces of a a thermocouple to generate electricity. Electrochemistry can generate electricity from various chemicals such as in batteries.

        The issue is that these methods don’t scale as well as just steam generators. Steam generators can reach up to 50% efficiency. So yea, unless we find a method that scales better and has higher efficiency we will keep using steam generators for a while.

    • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15·
      2 months ago

      Doom 2016, but they are definitely using the souls. Turbine honestly would have been preferable.

      • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I think they were just using the souls to open the portals then the cultist took over. So really they were the good guys /s

        • Baggie@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I think the argent energy itself is purified hell energy, which in turn was processed souls. That might have been confirmed in eternal, but I’m pretty sure the slow corruption of the UAC employees was implied to be because of the hell energy in 2016. Hard to remember what’s headcannon though.