Bluewing

Does FreeDoom count? It's as close to the original as I can get anymore.

Even along with public support, revolutions need their violent wing. MLK wouldn't have been as nearly successful without the Black Panthers visibly totin' guns on the 5 O'Clock news. It made MLK look very reasonable to deal with.

Gandhi, the modern Icon of peaceful protest winning the day, had armed rebellions popping up behind him. The Indian's had nearly a 100 year history of violence against the British. And an exhausted Great Britain just wanting to get out of the colonial business didn't hurt either.

When facing despots and fascists, there needs to be people willing to kill and die for the cause of freedom. We have not reached that point yet.

At the most basic level, it's still purity testing.

Lemmy is majority socialist and not communist. So as most liberals are, they are destined to hate on each other because neither side can pass the 'purity tests' each side cooks up.

Y'all deserve each other most of the time.

Reading the comments, it would seem most everyone here thinks that the usefulness of the steam is done when it gets used to turn a turbine at high pressure.

The steam can be used for much more than once. In the 1800's and early 1900s when steam ran trains and ships, they built double and triple expansion engines that took the energy of the steam two and three times before it was done. It doesn't need to be one and done. And when the energy is done being harvested for power generation, it can used for other things. Engineers today aren't dumber than the ones in the 1800s.

I can remember a small rural Minnesota town that had their own coal fired electric plant. (Built back before the REA was a thing). They took the left over steam from power generation and then piped it to around 200 homes in the town and heated them with the leftover steam. While a bit costly to install, it was dirt cheap to run. Those homes lost all that when the power plant was shut down and they had to switch to either natural gas, fuel oil, LP, or electricity.

So don't get hung up on just the power generation. Think what could be beyond that point.