There are a lot of ways to capture energy. Nuclear, chemical, etc. Summing everything other than Wind and Solar as "thermal generation" is really, really reduct

There are a lot of ways to capture energy. Nuclear, chemical, etc. Summing everything other than Wind and Solar as "thermal generation" is really, really reductive. It's so reductive that it strikes me as absurd. I don't usually get into conversations like this on HN with people who make these comments but yours truly made me laugh out loud. Is geothermal resigned to the graveyard because it uses steam? Is fusion power a fools errand because it uses steam?