{"id":3442,"date":"2015-04-28T21:45:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T21:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2023-07-13T16:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:14:37","slug":"my-solution-to-the-worlds-energy-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/technology\/my-solution-to-the-worlds-energy-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"My solution to the world&#8217;s energy problems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For years we&#8217;ve been hearing about the benefits of harnessing clean energy. Our reliance on fossil fuels has caused toxic pollution, led to numerous wars, and has rapidly altered the planet&#8217;s climate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While solar and wind have potential, let me explain one untapped source of renewable energy: hot takes on Twitter. See, hot takes could be used to heat water and drive a steam engine, must like coal, nuclear, and mirror-based solar power already do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a diagram of my proposal carefully illustrated in MS Paint:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hottakes-293x300.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3443\" title=\"Hot takes as a power source\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hottakes-293x300.png 293w, https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/hottakes.png 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The way this works is quite simple:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Hot takes about the latest issue on Twitter create heat<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A container of water is placed above the hot takes<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The water boils creating steam, which drives a steam engine, which in turn drives an electric generator<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After cooling, the water goes back into the container to be heated again<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In theory, if major national issues continue to be unresolved this could generate enough electricity to power the entire world. Imagine!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years we&#8217;ve been hearing about the benefits of harnessing clean energy. Our reliance on fossil fuels has caused toxic pollution, led to numerous wars, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","slim_seo":{"title":"My solution to the world's energy problems - MrEricSir.com","description":"For years we've been hearing about the benefits of harnessing clean energy. Our reliance on fossil fuels has caused toxic pollution, led to numerous wars, and h"},"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","autoblue_publish_document":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1074,1073,395],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-energy","tag-solutions","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mrericsir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}