[TheForge] Slack tank...POL OT

[peter fels & phoebe palmer]

On 12/20/2010 1:33 PM, Andrew Vida wrote:
>
> peter fels&  phoebe palmer wrote:
>
>> Of course, the major tech hurdle in the way of renewable energy, is
>> still energy storage.
> Carbon nanotube capacitors are the future, it appears, of storage.
Smells good, hope so. There are also carbon nanotube batteries in the works.
> There are also companies still pursuing LENR (cold fusion).  The results
> of the initial experimenters has been reproduced many times now and
> there is exxentially ZERO doubt that nuclear reactions are taking place.
>    One Dr Storm and his wife, both ex-Los Alamosites are doing research
> for Lattice.  They have detected tritium as a by product of their
> experiments, which pretty well seals the truth.  No reactions, no
> tritium.  The question remaining is whether enough energy can be
> extracted from these reactions.
Sure hope you are right.
>   The other question, of course, is how
> will government move to make personal reactors illegal for people to
> possess.  Best guess will be the tritium issue - hazardous waste.  Too
> much $$$ and power at stake to let people become energy independent. We
> would have to put up one hell of a fight on that front, but IMO it would
> be worth the bloodshed.
Bloodshed for electricity against an overwhelming adversary?  Forget 
it.  Need a better strategy.
> Imagine having a car that ran for 50 years without ever needing
> refueling.  That is the promise of LENR, if it can be made practical.
> I'd be willing to bet that it can be.  Interference is the real issue,
> moving forward.
Can't make a profit on a 50 year car.
The auto and power and oil industries would fold...and they wouldn't 
allow that.
>> Hardly advocating giving up the sparks, but think we need to be
>> considering the whole cost of burning coal.
> Right now we have no other choices.  Take heat away from people in
> winter on a large scale and see where that gets us.
Natural gas heats our asses just fine.
  Wish i had it here. local propane monopoly sticks it to us.
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