Steam is made by boiling water. There are many ways to boil water. Steam trains were usually fuelled by coal, just like a coal-fired power station.

I think you need to know how a power station works first, and that's by a magnet spinning whilst surrounded by a copper coil. So what we really want is to spin the magnet. This is often done by steam. You can boil water with gas, coal, nuclear or geothermal (which is actually "clean"). Other options include using water to spin the magnet in hydroelectric plants.

So, sure, steam itself is clean. The process of making steam isn't always so.

I'll just imagine the gondolas are part of Earth's elaborate ring system!

Not 4 years everywhere. Not everyone has the choice everywhere and also, not every elected official is trying to fuck up their country.

As an Aussie, the current government, whilst still crap, is a lot lot better than the previous one for example and they honestly seem to want to make positive changes for the majority of people. Unlike the previous lot who wanted to empower more rich people, downgrade public health systems, help churches and didn't believe in climate issues.

Wombat fact:

their poop is cuboid.

I would assume it's number. OP should make it by units instead as that would give a greater understanding of how much actual alcohol they're drinking.

No worries mate, it's from a classic movie called Highlander.

https://youtu.be/4AoOa-Fz2kw

I'm sure you'd love to draw another, but there can be only one....

I'll see myself out.

I forgot to mention before, that if you had geothermal everywhere, you wouldn't need nuclear anyway. it's a very clean electricity production method.

Most Italian research ever award goes to...these people 🤌🏼

Storing nuclear waste below ground already is a thing. But drilling down would be a problem. It's inherently unstable to generate heat. We need to store it somewhere a) stable b) low heat (as we don't want a meltdown) c) where any storage vessel won't melt from environmental heat (so not too deep due to temp gradient or deep but in cold rock d) where it won't interact, if there are issues, that would affect groundwater.

We often use salt mines for this as salt is very good at reducing heat in the source, low permeability and also self heals. It's pretty ideal for storage of nuclear waste. A borehole wouldn't suit for all the reasons that a salt mine does.

This would not be a problem. The Earth is plenty hot enough - also, there's really no need to go down that deep. The temperature gradient of the Earth is, on average, about 30°C per Km depth. it doesn't take long to get water hot enough to produce steam to turn a turbine. Some geological bedrock is cooler (i.e. cratons, e.g. Canadian Shield, Russian, South African and Australian cratonic complexes). There are enough radioactive elements in the to keep things toasty for a good while - or at least till the Sun expands and destroys Earth so we should be okay till then.

you would too if you got triggered by small holes while browsing a wholesome food subreddit!

Yep, there goes the trypophobia again.