If the govt would put money into this project it could be in operation within a few years. The main problem is- how to deal with the resistance from the oil companies. I would love to know that Pres. Trump is, at least, aware of the progress being made.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/compact-fusion.html
Problem?
Fusion has been the holy grail of energy production for some decades now. The challenge is igniting the reaction and the super high temperatures required (hotter than the core of the sun, like 100 million degrees C), and then containing it with immensely power magnetic or lasers fields. Gov't has been putting money in the various methods under research for some time, but in relatively small amounts considering the benefits it could bring. It's the deep-end of the plasma physics pool with huge challenges, but theoretically possible.
Problem?
Yes, problem. Recall the BP oil spill?
Cold Fusion freaks out the left who often equate it with nuclear power and in their minds must be crushed.
Can you imagine someone trying to implement a cold fusion power plant in the U.S. under Obama?
Not a chance.
Donald Trump is open to new power sources as long as they are viable and the tax-payers do not have to subsidize it.
Cold Fusion rocks!
The politicians just need to get out of the way.
Cold fusion reactor independently verified, has 10,000 times the energy density of gas
Cold Fusion Is Hot Again
60 Minutes: Once Considered Junk Science, Cold Fusion Gets A Second Look By Researchers
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cold-fusion-is-hot-again/
Problem?
Yes, problem. Recall the BP oil spill?
Problem?
The USA is a literal energy powerhouse. Not yet 100% accident-free, but a POWERHOUSE just the same.
Problem?
Yes, problem. Recall the BP oil spill?
Problem?
The USA is a literal energy powerhouse. Not yet 100% accident-free, but a POWERHOUSE just the same.
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We could be a net-exporter of energy but we'll have to wait a few week until Obama is out of office.
Some of the "green energy" ideas just are not working.
For example:
Report: Costly wind turbines projected to yield $1.39 in daily savings
Published December 08, 2016 - FoxNews.com
Massachusetts wind turbines generate controversy
A small Washington state city spent more than $100,000 on three “windmill-like turbines” – but any hopes for big savings appear to be blowing in the wind.
The Peninsula Daily News reported that the Port Angeles turbines, which haven’t yet been turned on, are expected to generate $1.39 per day in electricity, or roughly $42 per month.
The turbines were meant to help illuminate a local park. Now, some city council members are having second thoughts about their unanimous approval for the project.
“I did not realize they would produce so little energy. I wouldn’t have voted for it knowing it was that little,” City Councilwoman Sissi Bruch told The Peninsula Daily News.
“I did not realize they would produce so little energy. I wouldn’t have voted for it knowing it was that little,” City Councilwoman Sissi Bruch told The Peninsula Daily News.
Bruch later told Foxnews.com she was “disappointed” the project was not as efficient as intended, but says she remains supportive of the project.
Bruch said the purpose of the “designers was to let people see how wind works.” Asked if the intent of the project was to provide a cost-efficient means of electricity, she said it was not the primary reason.
“It is a piece of art,” she added.
The city, though, challenged some details in the newspaper report.
Nathan West, director of Community and Economic Development for the city, told FoxNews.com in an email that daily savings could be as high as $5.44 “at peak windspeed” but cautioned that “determination of actual benefit in dollars at this time would be speculative because the spires are not yet operational.”
He also defended the city’s investment in the turbines, saying: “[T]he City did not purchase these spires for the purpose of energy creating infrastructure but rather as a park element. There are however many other thoughts that went into the decision making regarding purchase of the spires.” He said they add to a “positive aesthetic” in the park and “symbolize energy creation.”
The city council voted in October 2015 to approve $107,516 out of a total $285,952 county funding grant to purchase the turbines from Urban Green Energy.
While they were supposed to be turned on two months ago, a dispute over safety inspection of the project has resulted in delays.
The electricity that is produced would be used to power 31 lights in the newly built Waterfront Park.
The lower-than-anticipated savings could be even lower depending on the eventual cost of maintaining the turbines in the harsh and salty environment, Port Angeles Deputy Power Systems Manager Shailesh Shere told the newspaper.
Though some members of the council may not be sold on the alternative energy initiative, there were those who never bought into the promised cost savings in the first place.
“My fundamental objection to these is that they are not cost-effective and it’s a waste of money,” former deputy director of power systems Phil Lusk told the paper.
A "piece of art" that kills birds. Wonderful.
A "piece of art" that kills birds. Wonderful.
Well someone is doing something to the birds, who constantly crap and bleed on my car. I don't know if it is from the cell phones, the HAARP technology that is frying the atmosphere, change to the magnetic grid of the planet, we are on the move towards a magnetic pole shift, but it really needs to stop. I am going to find out what is going on around here, and whatever agency oversees those who are doing it, is going to start getting formal complaints. I'm done, I've had enough.
http://cimsec.org/naval-applications-robotic-birds/28598
A French inventor has created another little bird, but with a maritime twist. The Bionic Bird mimics the flight and behavior of the swallow and apparently so convincingly that it attracts other swallows and predators alike.
Clear Flight Solutions manufactures the Robird for use at airports and harbor facilities because of its ability to prevent the loitering and nesting of small birds.
REMARKS: Loitering of birds. Why am I surprised?
And there is "habitat pollution"
http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/bio65/lec14/b65lec14.htm
REMARKS: Maybe we ought to hire some Amish to teach Americans how to farm, and not disrupt the environment, and that includes abusing the land for energy. We could use solar power and not pollute anything. Why don't we?
[Edited on 12/13/2016 by gina]
I found the answer to the bird problems I have been dealing with.
•Blood in Droppings: Internal Bleeding (low in the digestive track), Lead Poisoning, Kidney Disease
https://www.beautyofbirds.com/bleeding.html
Must be a lot of that in the soil, air, water, food up here. Good to know.
