Like in "Dolphin's Tale"
Posted on 04/14/2016 10:59:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Morgan Freeman will play him in the movie
Its only government regulation and desire for control that pushes centralization.
Power is a perfect example - the trend should be towards individuals being able to produce their own power, efficiently, cheaply and conveniently, without huge investment costs.
Like in "Dolphin's Tale"
This is where I think power generation is headed in the next 50 years. I think in many areas of the country you will no longer see large or mega-sized power generation plants and large high voltage wires. Instead, I think you will see smaller community, neighborhood, or even home-sized power plants.
That’s why the idea of building all these super high capacity power lines all through developed areas makes little sense given where the technology is clearly headed.
The turbine’s size, though remarkable, is not the issue. The fuel is. With the length of the fins reduced, the turbine can spool to much higher RPMs safer with less chance of destructive harmonic resonance. Were it to be made of titanium or ceramic, then it can achieve considerable internal temperatures and withstand the required pressures. BUT without the proper fuel source, one that is always available, the damned thing won’t run.
How does it get repressurized?
Could a small one of these be used to air condition a house?
Fuel source or source of movement such as a dam or tidal
Try THIS instead. They advertise heavily in my area, FL Panhandle:
Watch the video.......................
Making electricity cheaply requires the economy of scale. A small quiet efficient generator would be so desirable nobody could sit on a secret design for very long. It is just a hard problem to solve.
“After the carbon dioxide passes through the turbine, it’s cooled”
Ruh-ro...that daggone gorebal warming again!
Where can I buy one?
sorry if i don’t get all wee-wee’d up over this. i’ve seen too many ‘miracle’ technology announcements that haven’t panned out. i’ll believe it when i see it
“After the carbon dioxide passes through the turbine, it’s cooled and then repressurized before returning for another pass. “
I fail to see how this as a positive return on energy because more energy will always be required to pressurize it than will be extracted from it.
I believe they would use hydro power...................
This isn’t some ‘miracle’ technology, just an improvement on the state-of-the-art.....................
But again, the amount of energy put into compressing the CO2 will ALWAYS exceed the energy gotten out of it.
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