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[–] hades@feddit.uk 159 points 3 weeks ago (40 children)

Except solar. And wind. And hydro.

[–] JakenVeina@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

I dunno if "power plant" quite fits for solar and wind. Definitely for Hydro, though.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

"Power Plant" won't be a fitting term until we can generate electricity (at a viable scale) from chloroplasts.

And wouldn't that just be solar with extra steps?

[–] JATtho@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You should look at mitochondria:

  • The power plant of the cell.
  • Runs on a proton-gradient.
  • ATP synthase is essentially a molecular turbine and a generator.
  • oh. a turbine. Damm thing spins ~18000 rpm at medium throttle, pumping out elec- ATP. ATP.

Oops.. it's turbines all the way down.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago

runs on proton gradient

So I can launch it from Lutris?

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