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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It melts salt, isn’t it?

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 35 points 3 days ago (2 children)

If you mean molten salt reactors, guess what they do with the molten salt to make electricity...

[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

...they found a clever way to induce a current using temperature differentials between the molten salt and some sort of coolant mass?

[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Oh I love this comment. Such a not-leading question!

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I call it Bytejunkium, but I don't think it catched on.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 2 days ago

I bet it looks like a bunch of blue balls

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 days ago