Modern — overdeveloped — societies in the West are already in a severe crisis. Something, which will eventually turn into a long global emergency in the years and decades ahead. A five centuries long era of economic growth — ushered in by colonization and leading to the plundering of natural, mineral and most of all fossil fuel resources —
  • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
    131·
    2 years ago

    but so were steam engines.

    Fun fact: we still use steam engines in quite a lot of things, actually. Not so much with wood and coil furnaces to power boilers in locomotives, but just about every power plant uses a steam engine.

      • ramble81@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        What types of electric generation that aren’t heat related? I can think of wind and solar, and hydro? But nuclear and fossil fuels are steam, aren’t they?

    • Fermion@mander.xyzEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      Comparing a modern steam turbine to a steam engine is a little bit like comparing a jet engine to a box fan.

      It’s technically correct, the best kind of correct, but they are wildly different machines.