Indonesian island hopes to spark green power revolution
""To date, the bulk of fusion research has been channelled towards a plasma containment and stabilization method. This is the approach used by ITER's tokamak reactor, the cost of which could exceed US$13.7 billion before it's online in the year 2027 (barring further delays). Researchers at LPP Fusion, in a project partially financed by NASA-JPL, are working in a different direction: focus fusion, which focuses the plasma in a very small area to produce fusion and an ion beam which could then be harnessed to produce electricity. It is small enough to fit in a shipping container, can double as a rocket engine, and would cost US$50 million to produce the working 5 MW prototype. To reach the next hurdle and demonstrate feasibility, LPP Fusion has started an Indiegogo campaign to raise $200K."
They are trying to raise seed money toward a 50 million dollar research project. Depending upon how they pace their project milestones (what they can show for the first 200K) they might make it. That's how Google got started, after all (not crowdfunding, but with a relatively small initial investment).
I'm done trying to sound smart. "Clear" is the new smart.I think this one has a lot of potential: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways
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the main site. Interesting concept, but they are not able to estimate how much their hexagonal panels will cost.
Do they mention anything about how they'll be kept clean? Obviously they'll be waterproof, but it seems like they'd get covered in enough dirt to reduce their efficiency pretty quickly.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
I doubt it. Consider normal highways that we have right now, they aren't actually very dirty.
Well, yeah; until the renewables grow enough, you need the combustion plants to make up the difference. But nukies stifle renewable growth because of the way they constantly generate the same amount of energy and can't adjust for demand. Combustion plants, on the other hand, stimulate it, because renewables are so much cheaper in comparison. I've been involved in developing immense new offshore turbines with High Voltage DC transmission. There's going to be some massive increases in that department, mark my words.
Although I'm rather miffed that these mega-projects are very much a big-government/big-business thing, which is alienating to pretty much everyone. Manageable-sized, citizen-controlled projects are much more my cup of tea.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.Dutch company launches new-generation urban wind turbines
Big on wind turbines, the Dutch are. Hope it works out for them. Actually, I don't; the ocean is the only thing that keeps them at bay.
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Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.