Thursday, May 29, 2008
politics and energy
I would love to see a revolution of the structure of physics. A new ultimate source of energy to make all things for humanity possible. I am referring to an article left in the comments of my last post. http://www.physorg.com/news131101595.html Unfortunately, I am a severe skeptic when it comes to human nature. Politics and those who have something to lose if cold fusion is successful will squash this like a bug, just like all the rest of the revolutionary energy producing technologies that have come and disappeared. Tesla was very near to transmitting electricity without wires until his backers found out that was what he was doing. The question was "where would we put the meter to be able to get paid for it?" It will all boil down to where is the monetary gain? There will never be a possibility of "free" energy as long as there is monetary gain. The only way is if enough people can produce their own power. It has to be cold fusion "in the garage". The do-it-yourselfers have to be able to reproduce it otherwise it will be controlled by the large corporations and no one will ever see the technology in our life times. I know that sounds skeptical, but it is the truth. Solar is extremely expensive, but a person can do-it-themselves. Micro-hydro electric is very cheap but you have to be in the right situation to generate all your electricity. Transportation is still not covered by solar or hydro or wind, so tech like cold-fusion would be awesome. Again I will refer back to the old master Tesla. Rumor has it that he assembled a set of circuits into a box and powered a Roles-Royce Phantom that had its engine replaced with an electric motor,with no batteries or other known power source. Or how about a resistor that outputs 110% of the power inputted? A so called over-unity device. Sounds fantastical, but its not. The over-unity resistor has been invented at least three times that I have heard of from as long ago as 1900 to as recently as last year. Where is this technology and why isn't being used? Politics and energy are a bad combination....
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Even if Tesla was successful and his invention(s) hidden away for reasons of greed, this is an entirely different situation.
The world did not revolve around electricity, nor did it face a looming shortage of natural resources to provide said electricity, or the recent fear of climate change.
Cold fusion would be very easy to meter and charge for, it hasn't been implemented because any claims of cold fusion have been singularly unrepeatable by the experimenter or peers.
The next big possible invention to be trotted out is the engine that runs on water. The looming drinking water shortage is more than reason enough to not implement that even should it exist. Incidentally biofuels are already having a similar effect on food prices worldwide and will not provide enough power even if you ignore the starving people. Biofuels are probably implementable, but are no long term solution.
Wireless power sounds like a great idea until you start to look at wireless communication and the still unknown impact it has on our physiology. As much as I hate power lines(I just had a 16 and a 27 hour power outage in this last big storm) I can only imagine how shitty service would be if there were no dedicated lines to provide power.
Wireless communication is never more reliable or consistent than cabled, I would never want my cabled internet connection replaced with a wireless one, ever. How efficient is broadcasting power? It really seems like it would be extremely inefficient.
As far a zero-point energy goes it is the most exotic and the least likely to be implemented any time in the near future, if ever. It is not an alternative energy source, as I understand it, it is THE source of energy.
If humanity is the problem then efforts should be to find a way to fix humanity not finding alternate sources of energy, as no amount of scientific discovery will work if humans are hell bent on derailing it. The whole idea of each person generating their own power would take such a paradigm shift in human nature to occur than i think it is more exotic and unreachable than zero point.
Long winded as hell,
johnnyDurden
Well said Johnny! The point with Tesla was the point of our state of humanity. It isn't like I am really advocating wireless power transmission, just an example of what happens when someone sees their dollars getting cut into. But if wireless transmission was possible then it could be transmitted to and from space, which is something that we had talked about before(solar panels in space for constant,unobstructed reception). anyway...
No there wouldn't be any problem with metering but again that was my point. If it is going to be metered then the technology will be in the hands of corporations and it won't ever see the light of day as long as there is something else that they can exploit.
No Biofuels are not the answer and any source consuming water is even more irresponsible, but that is exactly what they are using as fuel in cold fusion. "The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel and produces almost zero waste." So we are back to square one with that.
Yes, humanity is the problem, but some of the power generation suggestions that I am making are things that should be built into the systems in new construction by the contractors and then they would have an extra selling point. If your house consumed no electricity from the power company, wouldn't it have made it even more attractive to you? There a lot of people that want that, solar or wind or whatever, but with an average installation of $30 to $80,000, nobody is doing it. There are some implementable changes that are coming down the lane to bring the cost down, but for solar demand is going to have to increase to bring cost down. Simple economics.
The plain fact of all of this, true enough, is that no matter how smart humanity thinks it is, it still keeps tripping over itself and has no real understanding of the universe. LOL
Long winded response,
Che`
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