The future looks good - or bad?

[Sculptor]

There is no such thing as limitless clean free energy.
ALL systems require high tech solutions with rare earth metals and Fusion is still a pipe dream.

Another individual who has not read my previous posts.

Reading your previous posts will not change these basic facts.

[BigMike]

There is no such thing as limitless clean free energy.
ALL systems require high tech solutions with rare earth metals and Fusion is still a pipe dream.

Another individual who has not read my previous posts.

Reading your previous posts will not change these basic facts.

Let's start with this basic fact: I never said anything about "limitless clean free energy."

[Sculptor]

Another individual who has not read my previous posts.

Reading your previous posts will not change these basic facts.

Let's start with this basic fact: I never said anything about "limitless clean free energy."

Oh dear.
Hair-splitting is not going to encourage me to use my time in discussion with you.
The phrase you used was..

specifically an almost limitless supply of it and at zero cost. I have a 100-200 year perspective.

I dread to ask what a 1 -2 hundred year perspective is.

[BigMike]

Reading your previous posts will not change these basic facts.

Let's start with this basic fact: I never said anything about "limitless clean free energy."

Oh dear.
Hair-splitting is not going to encourage me to use my time in discussion with you.

I'm not interested in silly debates with you, so you'll have to keep looking for someone else to engage.

The phrase you used was..

specifically an almost limitless supply of it and at zero cost. I have a 100-200 year perspective.

I dread to ask what a 1 -2 hundred year perspective is.

My previous posts explain why my perspective is 100-200 years. Read them before you respond.

[Sculptor]

I'm not interested in silly debates with you, so you'll have to keep looking for someone else to engage.

perfect

[BigMike]

Just sayin'
https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2022/12/1 ... -contd.cnn

[Belinda]

Another individual who has not read my previous posts.

Reading your previous posts will not change these basic facts.

Let's start with this basic fact: I never said anything about "limitless clean free energy."

But this very morning comes a deus ex machina from a Californian laboratory. Nuclear fusion works!

[BigMike]

But this very morning comes a deus ex machina from a Californian laboratory. Nuclear fusion works!

I announced that here:

and in the post immediately preceding your own.

[Belinda]

Big Mike, I apologise. I 'll be more careful to read the relevant posts.

PS I have looked and I see it's a video. I dislike videos in discussions, seldom look at them, and that may be why I missed your post.

You also had written:

"But solar energy isn't the only new thing that's happening. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week. This came after the media reported that a federal laboratory had recently reached a major milestone in nuclear fusion research."

[Sculptor]

Yes.
The future is good and bad.

[Sculptor]

Big Mike, I apologise. I 'll be more careful to read the relevant posts.

PS I have looked and I see it's a video. I dislike videos in discussions, seldom look at them, and that may be why I missed your post.

You also had written:

"But solar energy isn't the only new thing that's happening. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week. This came after the media reported that a federal laboratory had recently reached a major milestone in nuclear fusion research."

Let us not hold our breath.

[Belinda]

Big Mike, I apologise. I 'll be more careful to read the relevant posts.

PS I have looked and I see it's a video. I dislike videos in discussions, seldom look at them, and that may be why I missed your post.

You also had written:

"But solar energy isn't the only new thing that's happening. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week. This came after the media reported that a federal laboratory had recently reached a major milestone in nuclear fusion research."

Let us not hold our breath.

It's not yet commercially viable not even as much so as earliest day of wind turbines.

[BigMike]

Big Mike, I apologise. I 'll be more careful to read the relevant posts.

PS I have looked and I see it's a video. I dislike videos in discussions, seldom look at them, and that may be why I missed your post.

You also had written:

"But solar energy isn't the only new thing that's happening. On Sunday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it would announce a "major scientific breakthrough" this week. This came after the media reported that a federal laboratory had recently reached a major milestone in nuclear fusion research."

Let us not hold our breath.

It's not yet commercially viable not even as much so as earliest day of wind turbines.

Some scientists think it will take about 30 years to do fusion on an industrial scale, which is pretty good and well within my 1-2 hundred year scope.

Concerning space-based solar power, which is a much better understood technology, I stated yesterday that "it is possible to put huge solar panels in orbit around the earth and send the energy wirelessly to the earth's surface, using microwaves or laser beams, but it is not cost-effective to do so right now. That is, the current price of energy is too high right now.

But once a few solar panels are set up, the energy they produce can be used to pay for the installation of more panels in a way that grows exponentially over time. Soon, we could be flooded with free energy, and having the ability to ramp up production as needed."

[Belinda]

Let us not hold our breath.

It's not yet commercially viable not even as much so as earliest day of wind turbines.

Some scientists think it will take about 30 years to do fusion on an industrial scale, which is pretty good and well within my 1-2 hundred year scope.

Concerning space-based solar power, which is a much better understood technology, I stated yesterday that "it is possible to put huge solar panels in orbit around the earth and send the energy wirelessly to the earth's surface, using microwaves or laser beams, but it is not cost-effective to do so right now. That is, the current price of energy is too high right now.

But once a few solar panels are set up, the energy they produce can be used to pay for the installation of more panels in a way that grows exponentially over time. Soon, we could be flooded with free energy, and having the ability to ramp up production as needed."

That is good news.

[BigMike]

That is good news.

I, for one, have a lot of hope for the future.