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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Isn't it weird that we'll never (ever?) talk about lightnings as a potential renewable energy source ? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by soumerd_retardataire@lemmygrad.ml to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Seems to my ignorant eyes that we could always somehow split the power received into more manageable units, even if it has to be splitted a million times, 🤷‍♂️.

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[–] Bizarroland@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You can farm lighting with a model rocket. Hell, the Empire State Building gets struck several times a year.

We just don't have anything that can capture and store that much power easily, and smoothing that power into stable, reliable energy would be harder than Matt Gaetz at a elementary school luncheon.

[–] mrbubblesort@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

harder than Matt Gaetz at a elementary school luncheon

god-tier analogy right there