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The Future of Energy


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2018 Oct 30, 8:49am   2,140 views  11 comments

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Interesting read on the startups attempting to fuse atoms to create the next energy breakthrough. Personally, I'll side with Musk on improving use of solar.

https://www.bloombergquint.com/technology/nuclear-fusion-financed-by-billionaires-bill-gates-jeff-bezos#gs.DbixFRw

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1   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2018 Oct 30, 8:54am  

Where's my bendable screen that looks like a sheet of paper?
I suspect our Tech journalists are liars and cheats. That over hype and over sell everything.
This is just more nanotube, space elevator, bendable screen reusable paper, and everything else they have oversold over the last 2 decades.
Even our Solar Power technology didn't improve spite the billions Obama gave his crony buddies to make Solor affordable, and the battery technology better.
The only thing he did was stop China from selling us cheap Solar panels.
2   Goran_K   2018 Oct 30, 8:56am  

We produce enough energy, we don't STORE enough energy. A huge portion of our energy bleeds off in the power grid, lost as heat, because we aren't able to store it for later.

The next breakthrough in energy will be newer ways of storage.
3   NuttBoxer   2018 Oct 30, 9:16am  

Goran_K says
The next breakthrough in energy will be newer ways of storage.







Read Musk's quote at the bottom of the article. Seems to be his focus.
4   NuttBoxer   2018 Oct 30, 9:17am  

Tenpoundbass says
Even our Solar Power technology didn't improve spite the billions Obama gave his crony buddies to make Solor affordable


Are you saying that government handouts don't drive innovation!?
5   Bd6r   2018 Oct 30, 9:40am  

Goran_K says
The next breakthrough in energy will be newer ways of storage.

I don't see how, even though I have colleagues who work in this field and occasionally go to their talks. If you confine a lot of energy in a small space, it becomes dangerous.

NuttBoxer says
Interesting read on the startups attempting to fuse atoms to create the next energy breakthrough. Personally, I'll side with Musk on improving use of solar.


I am not that positive on solar, unless you live in desert. Fusion thoughcould solve all our energy needs, but it has huge engineering issues.
6   Bd6r   2018 Oct 30, 9:41am  

NuttBoxer says
Are you saying that government handouts don't drive innovation!?

Fracking which all of us are very happy about nowadays, came out of DoE funding of fundamental science and its applications in 1970's.
7   FortWayneAsNancyPelosiHaircut   2018 Oct 30, 9:45am  

Looks promising. They got to find a way to make it cheaper to run the plants. Because energy costs only gone up because of the maintenance costs, not generation costs.
8   Goran_K   2018 Oct 30, 9:49am  

dr6B says
I don't see how, even though I have colleagues who work in this field and occasionally go to their talks. If you confine a lot of energy in a small space, it becomes dangerous.



With current technology.
9   Strategist   2018 Oct 30, 10:07am  

Tenpoundbass says
Where's my bendable screen that looks like a sheet of paper?
I suspect our Tech journalists are liars and cheats. That over hype and over sell everything.


Calm down Captain, Rome wasn't built in a day.
10   🎂 Tenpoundbass   2018 Oct 30, 11:59am  

NuttBoxer says
Are you saying that government handouts don't drive innovation!?


It did we've hit a brick wall, We're seeing a reversal of Moore's law.
The great innovation of the 20th century was spured by the Space programs and grants to innovate new technology for it.
Now that Uncle Sam isn't footing the bill for it. They said private industry would spur the next round of innovation. But what we're seeing is the wholesaling of old technology.
Our bleeding edge advantage is slipping. Elon Musk isn't building better Rocket Ships, he's buying stockpiled NASA rockets, and repurposing existing technology to use on it.

If our Government's reversal on space exploration had happened after the moon landings and we never had the Space Shuttle program. We would not have Cell Phones and Satellite Communications and many other things today.
What will we miss out on in the future because we let Lobbyists hijack our Space exploration efforts?

We've exhausted our stock of new technology we don't have any new tricks.
11   Shaman   2018 Oct 30, 12:42pm  

I want to power my DeLorean with a Mr. Fusion.

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