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Next he'll be forcing us all to drink dihydrogen monoxide, a chemical that's known to be fatal to humans under certain conditions!
They literally use that shit to power steam engines! Now imagine what it does to your insides. Nasty, nasty stuff.
Dont forget it is a key component in both hydrochloric acid and making nuclear power plants operate.
And its much more dangerous to try to breathe than carbon monoxide.
Water? Don't touch the stuff.. fish fuck in it
I'm sorry but as a technicality none of the power used in a steam engine is derived from the dihydrogen monoxide. The chemical compound is used as a medium to turn thermal energy into kinetic energy. The thermal energy, likewise, is usually obtained from another source such as chemical, nuclear, or photovoltaic.
Good luck running your steam engine without it!
Also:
Pretty sure there aren't moon-powered trains, bro, but nice try.
Its actually pretty common practice when restoring a steam engine to run it on compressed air to test it's a ability to hold the amount of pressure it needs to. Much less of a catastrophic failure if compressed air leaks out without warning than 400° steam
A steam engine can also be used to generate power, or to operate mechanical indistrial equipment like rock crushers or pumps, as a stationary device, but in hindsight the tidal power probably never gets that hot. The engine for moving trains could also be powered by electricity from wind or tidal, though I don't think there are any practical examples.
A friend of mine ingested a ton of it and died. They found him at the bottom of a lake
Thry say even small amounts are fatal in certain circumstances.
Water? like from the toilet?!
Yuck! It has no electrolytes!
It’s what we and plants crave!
Sources claim an up to 100% mortality rate!
In 1862 dihydrogen monoxide leaked into a well, and every single person who consumed it has perished!!! 100% fatality rate in just this incident!!!!
Every single person in my family tree, born prior to 1920, have two things in common... They are ALL dead and they ALL drank dihydrogen monoxide regularly!
This has got to stop!
You think that's bad, here's something to consider... The vast majority of them died within 24 hours of ingesting dihydrogen monoxide!
Every single person who has ever ingested it has died or will die