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Our entire society* has been based on burning things. Then we progressed to... burning atoms.
(*Exceptions I can think of is solar, wind, hydro.)
Then we're leaching off the sun burning atoms.
Ohhhhh!
Wind and hydro still have to spin a turbine. Solar is the one true stand out advancement in electricity production since we started using electricity.
They spin it directly though, not via steam.
Technically, as long as there's more than zero percent humidity I guess wind turbines are still powered by steam. And hydro is essentially steam, too, just the cooler version.
To be fair, the atoms were going to burn anyhow. We just clumped them together to make better use of them.
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