Are you ready...?

[Sir Brad]

I'll call B.S. on your friends "story". The power companies have never feared "solar" because it is not a viable base load source. (that's why Germany has about the highest electricity rates in the industrialized world. Ridiculously high) Ergo, electrical power company higher ups don't even think about it in that way.

I live in a some what sunnier part of the world, where the Power companies where having to pay Householders for their excess because of where the fead-in tariff (that the home owner was receiving when the sun was up) was and the off-peak tariffs (that they where paying when the sun was down), and that was just on a basic system, if you have an expanded system you may still may be receiving a credit from the power company, but Tariffs have bean restructured so it's back to almost everybody paying again.

They are more worried about how much it complicates there lives, not what it's costing them, since they just pass it on to the consumer as a "Green Power Levy" if you tick the "I'm a Greeny" box on your power bill or they hit you up with "Carbon Tax Deferment Costs" and an "Environmental Reparations Levy".

 

[HG_B]

I live in a some what sunnier part of the world, where the Power companies where having to pay Householders for their excess because of where the fead-in tariff

Got it. So, the in context translation (for those not living down under would have been, ""We finely get insane gov regulations under control now this"

p.s. I live in a part of the world as sunny as where you live. Solar STILL isn't a viable base load solution here, nor in Australia...

 

[Jason M Durkish]

Very interesting this is the first time that I heard about it .
I would like to learn more .

 

[Magnus von Thornwood]

Care to come down to Pit?

I was considering for a product outside of the US (I think that this isn't a US based person/entity) as I DO know the completely insane US regulatory situation. I ought to. I've spent enough time on the Hill and at the W.H. battling anti-business/jobs crap. it. For US product? 25+ years.

Got it. So, the in context translation (for those not living down under would have been, ""We finely get insane gov regulations under control now this"

p.s. I live in a part of the world as sunny as where you live. Solar STILL isn't a viable base load solution here, nor in Australia...

So, dude, since this not the Pit and I got enough Infractions, care to come down to the Pit and defend your politics?

I ask since I differ with your characterization of regulations and would like to hear what logic you are using to make your claim.

 

[Ulsyus]

There have been several teens who built fusion reactors at home, and the NRC has seized their equipment as unlawful. None of them have been prosecuted, and several have been lauded, but the fact remains: they lose their gear due to it being unlawful to operate a nuclear reactor without expensive permits.

You really make running an home nuclear reactor sound like a bad thing you know...

I followed a few links and watched a Youtube vid on Mr Rossi, saw something that said he was going to struggle with a patent as the same process had been patented by another Italian more than 10 years ago. Also claimed was that he started up a firm decades ago to process "waste" (they showed tyres and mentioned oil) into usable petrochem products, but the thing failed and the local regulators found nothing worthwhile in his outputs.

NASA's also working on this process too aren't they?

 

[aramis]

You really make running an home nuclear reactor sound like a bad thing you know...

I followed a few links and watched a Youtube vid on Mr Rossi, saw something that said he was going to struggle with a patent as the same process had been patented by another Italian more than 10 years ago. Also claimed was that he started up a firm decades ago to process "waste" (they showed tyres and mentioned oil) into usable petrochem products, but the thing failed and the local regulators found nothing worthwhile in his outputs.

NASA's also working on this process too aren't they?

NASA's said in the past that a credible replication would be required before they would. Rossi's a known quack, but so was Tesla.

 

[Sir Brad]

and so was Edison for a time, Dr. Joseph Bell was seen as a crank in Policing & Investigation circles even though he was a respected Medicine Professor and one of the Queens Consulting Physicians and later Personal Surgeon, today he is widely recognised as the father of modern forensic investigation.

some of the most striking breakthroughs in science have bean made by Cranks and Quacks, right up until someone else replicated their experiments or they themselves where able to demonstrate it on a commercial scale.

 

[Murphy]

Fusion will never happen.

There's just too many people who are interested in the world continuing using fossil fuels. People with power, too.

Well maybe after oil and coal runs out.

 

[aramis]

Fusion will never happen.

There's just too many people who are interested in the world continuing using fossil fuels. People with power, too.

Well maybe after oil and coal runs out.

One of the prime movers in the economy is the 1st world militaries. And THEY want fusion.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Interesting how this 'breakthrough' shows up 5 days after the E-Cat announcement.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lockheed-claims-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy1

 

[HG_B]

Interesting how this 'breakthrough' shows up 5 days after the E-Cat announcement.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lockheed-claims-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy1

Why are they touting the Lockeed thing again? They announced the same in early 2013 at Ted x I believe. Same data, same timeline for completion.

 

[mike wightman]

Until I see the peer reviewed papers on these breakthroughs I am going to remain extremely sceptical.

Fifty years of research and billions spent to develop fusion reactors and all of sudden they release two at once...

 

[Carlobrand]

Interesting how this 'breakthrough' shows up 5 days after the E-Cat announcement.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lockheed-claims-breakthrough-on-fusion-energy1

Well, now, that's interesting:

"...U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle. ..."

And here all this time I was thinking those were fission reactors.