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Post by thales on Jul 4, 2007 10:09:24 GMT -1
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Post by Giar on Jul 4, 2007 10:18:58 GMT -1
bloody hell....fair play if its true  |
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 4, 2007 10:26:48 GMT -1
WAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Lets go energy wasting crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by jh1980 on Jul 4, 2007 10:28:47 GMT -1
WAAAAAA HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! Lets go energy wasting crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! No, man, you gotta save the energy to power your trip to Mars!  |
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Post by Dr LuKas on Jul 4, 2007 10:32:45 GMT -1
Oh yeah ok, everybody save your energy so I can go to Mars, those IR bastards can't get me up there.  |
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 4, 2007 10:36:00 GMT -1
Heard about this several months back actually; the bloke they interviewed pressed some very reasonable points forward! And the process actually sounds feasible, though I don't know enough about advanced electromagnetivity to vouch for exactly how plausible it is. He's a rich fucker if it does work though; he can just name his price! |
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Post by ovechkin8 on Jul 4, 2007 10:47:25 GMT -1
Remember cold fusion ? You can't beat the Laws of Thermodynamics.
There's some ultra efficient photosynthesisi(the electron transport chain being used to generate electricity) mimicking solar cells being tested in S.Africa at the moment.
This is the way to go. Seville has already implemented a solar tower & with attendant tracking mirrors to power 8% of the city's energy needs rising to 50% over the next decade with more towers.
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Post by Neko Bazu on Jul 4, 2007 11:02:17 GMT -1
I read about that Seville idea too, and that looks to be great - it's not really a system that'd work too well in places too far outside of the tropics though, like here in the UK, because of the dependency on sunlight. Agreed that cold fusion doesn't seem likely, but then this is based on electromagnetism, not thermodynamics, so it's a more plausible means - it's certainly the route I'd have approached if I were deliberately searching for it (speaking as an engineer). If they've gotten the magnetic fields just right, then who knows? After all, it's not like we have a deep and full understanding of the laws of physics - realistically, we're only beginning to understand them, so seeing them disproved isn't such a biggy. I'm curious to see what the scientists experimenting with the devices think of them when it's published later in the year  |
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