The Energy Debacle Is Over

 
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Post by Lightning » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 1:07 pm

Fusion. The nuclear reaction that powers the sun will inevitably be put into use here on Earth.. This will be the holy grail of energy production. Say bye bye to wind, solar, fossil and nuclear fission..

Imagine a furnace that consumes 1 ounce of water instead of 10 tons of coal to heat your house all winter. Beam me up Scotty!

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Post by Hambden Bob » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 1:59 pm

What have You done with Our Lee Lightning???? Why have You taken him just before Christmas? Who will deliver the Bread??

Bring him back to the Knuckle-Dragging,Black Rocks Burning Darkside-NOW !!

 
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Post by Pacowy » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:11 pm

I wouldn't say bye-bye just yet. Although I've heard the promise and expected practicality of fusion articulated by someone with an advanced degree in physics, that was almost 50 years ago. Still waiting.

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Post by Lightning » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:22 pm

Hambden Bob wrote:
Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 1:59 pm
Bring him back to the Knuckle-Dragging,Black Rocks Burning Darkside-NOW !!
Haha!! I know right?
I've always had an open mind to new technology :)
Pacowy wrote:
Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:11 pm
that was almost 50 years ago. Still waiting.
True, but I look at how far things have come since the 1800's steam locomotives. It is just a matter of time and with every year that passes there is progress, even if only inches. It's coming.

 
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Post by Pacowy » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:40 pm

Lightning wrote:
Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:22 pm
It is just a matter of time and with every year that passes there is progress, even if only inches. It's coming.
With that much can-do spirit, you might want to consider applying for a job in the Tesla marketing department. Just sayin'. :yes: :roll: :clap:

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Post by warminmn » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:51 pm

Crap, I saw the topic and poster and thought Lightning built a small coal power plant for his house....

 
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Post by Toddburn » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 3:44 pm

Is the tokamak safe? I didn’t read anything about that part. Hope it doesn’t turn into another Chernobyl.


 
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Post by Homesteader » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 3:52 pm

Like was said above; they've been trying to fuse atoms for better than fifty years like smashing them together in 25 mile radius cyclotrons and still can't get more energy out of it than they put in to the process. I wouldn't put away those black rocks yet. ;)

 
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Post by KLook » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 3:58 pm

I am still waiting for my flying car......

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Post by Toddburn » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 4:05 pm

Kevin maybe the tokamak can be used in place of plutonium and the flex capacitor!

 
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Post by Pacowy » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 4:25 pm

KLook wrote:
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I am still waiting for my flying car......
Now that one was solved a long time ago. I'm sure I recall seeing Dick Van Dyke flying a car around England in the 1960's, and in the 1970's they were so commonplace that even AMC had a flying version of the Matador (IIRC one of those appeared in "The Man With the Golden Gun").

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Post by Hambden Bob » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 5:10 pm

Ahh,The Pac Is Back!! Nice Summation,I Do Believe! I'm just Glad that it looks like Our Breadman is Back and in fine Technological Form!! I'll be thinking of You Guys Tonight when I'm watching the 1984 version of George C. Scott's Dickens Portrayal of Der Ebenezer Scrooge! Always got a Jolt at the end of the Flick when a rather revised Scrooge tells Bob Cratchett to "Order More Coal" !! Merry Christmas,You Carbon Bangers,You!!

 
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Post by Lightning » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 8:49 pm

warminmn wrote:
Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 2:51 pm
Crap, I saw the topic and poster and thought Lightning built a small coal power plant for his house....
Haha, don't get me wrong, I love my coal. I'd have a bowl of it with milk if it didn't break my teeth. The sad reality is that its not a long term solution. It will get more and more difficult to mine and process as supplies run out, just like all fossil fuels. Nuclear fusion will be the answer going forward in generations to come and we are on the brink of an energy revolution, just like other revolutions in past history. Watch and see...

I think we will see this in our lifetime.

 
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Post by McGiever » Mon. Dec. 23, 2019 11:47 pm

Put down that crack pipe and step away from the keyboard...
No time soon will big oil or any energy utilities be sidelined...when THEY build fusion you'll pay THEM a monthly bill as it will be meterd and goverment taxes will be collected on it....shheez, there ain't no free lunch here boys...

 
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Post by CapeCoaler » Tue. Dec. 24, 2019 12:26 am

Remember when...
Nuke was going to be so cheap...
No meters would be necessary...
The Nuke islands they were going to build off the Jersey coast...


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