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To: ckilmer
Agreed. And that at that point we will be driving electric cars.

I don't care what pushes my transportation down the road as long as it is dirt cheap and available. Petroleum, wind as in a sail, an electric motor, etc.

Nuclear is our future. And a serious upgrade to the power grid will be necessary to transport all of that “clean” power from the nuke plant to our homes and the gas/charging station.

Also, it is too bad that we still use steam to drive turbines to generate electricity. It is too bad that there isn't a process for moving electrons directly from a power source. Maybe a photocell tuned to the wavelength of energy produced from a nuclear fusion process which is probably the visible spectrum or infrared to ultraviolet— well, the spectrum of the sun. Your standard photocell is not that efficient. But it might be (or will be) as efficient or more efficient than a steam conversion process.

21 posted on 04/15/2017 11:51:00 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: dhs12345

It is too bad that there isn’t a process for moving electrons directly from a power source.
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Yes this is somewhere out there. it is also one of things that will just collapse the cost of energy.

Who knows where when and how it will happen. I keep hearing it most often though in reference to fusion power.


39 posted on 04/16/2017 1:07:20 PM PDT by ckilmer (q e)
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