r/oddlysatisfying • u/johnny_briggs • 1d ago

Chair Row Alignment Tool

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

I’ve got some uncomfortable news about most tools for you: they’re almost exclusively some variation of metal on stick

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u/TravisJungroth 1d ago

Like all the large scale energy production methods that use this amazing technology called “steam”.

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

That was the most shocking part of nuclear power when I learned about it.
It’s just another way to generate heat to make steam to turn turbines.

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u/NegaDoug 1d ago

I remember being so disappointed learning this in highschool physics in the early 2000s. "Wait.... So we do all this just to generate steam to turn a turbine?! That CAN'T be it!!!"

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u/TravisJungroth 1d ago

Ran some numbers and about 70% of US energy production involves steam. Hydroelectric (5.6%) doesn’t count, but I feel like it deserves a mention. It depends on steam’s chiller bro, water vapor, as part of the water cycle.

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

What’s the rest? Diesel/natural gas?
I’m guessing renewables are the other option.

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u/TravisJungroth 1d ago

Natural gas involves steam 90% of the time. But usually the steam is just captured from waste heat, there’s still a turbine. So my numbers are actually too high. It’s more like 50%.

Photovoltaic solar, wind and hydro use no steam.

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

We’ve installed a nat gas turbine generator recently that cycles like a diesel engine with no steam, so that’s what I thought you were talking about.
Thanks for the info!

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u/sou_cool 1d ago

I've always thought Steampunk was a funny concept as a result of this.

You don't need an alternate history to get to a steam powered world, until the rise of solar/wind pretty much all of our electrical objects have been steam powered.

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u/Practical_Dot_3574 1d ago

Oh yea?! String on cups. Boom!

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u/enters_and_leaves 1d ago

That’s what makes this so innovative; it’s string on stick.

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u/RodanThrelos 1d ago

Hooooooly shit you’re right!
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u/Cheese-Manipulator 1d ago

A fax machine is just a waffle iron with a phone attached.

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u/KnifeKnut 1d ago

As a knife enthusiast, I must agree.