Do any of you guys care about people lane splitting?

[Siro]

When I was young I imagined a nuclear power plant farm on the moon with a bunch of microwave energy transmitters beaming the power back to earth.

An even better idea is building giant solar cells in space (practically infinite space), and have them beam the energy back to Earth by lasers.

 

[babe]

When I was young I imagined a nuclear power plant farm on the moon with a bunch of microwave energy transmitters beaming the power back to earth.

there's only two places on earth where you could locate a receiver for that energy, and you would melt the icecaps too. Tesla had the answer, harnessing the atmospheric electric current.

 

[Siro]

there's only two places on earth where you could locate a receiver for that energy, and you would melt the icecaps too. Tesla had the answer, harnessing the atmospheric electric current.

That would certainly have a profound effect on the climate. Solar farms in space have far better scalability and potential. Not only would it provide infinite power to Earth 24/7, but it would also power any space structures we build.

Get it done people.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

Perhaps eventually we can use some of those superalloys used by NASA and other ultra-high tech organizations in very small quantities, where a very large atom is introduced into the lattice to increase energy required for dislocations. Of course, dislocations themselves can be utilized to strengthen a material, while reducing it's strength to weight ratio. Many interesting possibilities in this field.

As for lithium batteries, I prefer that beyond the immediate future we move past Li-ion to more energy dense battery tech. I know there have advancements like lithium-air that might make it to mass-production some time soon, but the limits of lithium batteries will be reached before too long. Even more interestingly, we can start seriously looking into deployment of wireless electricity to reduce the need for batteries in the first place.

This post caused me to think of the possibility of wireless electricity powering cars as they drive down the road. Obviously we're a long way from that, but it will revolutionize transportation.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

An even better idea is building giant solar cells in space (practically infinite space), and have them beam the energy back to Earth by lasers.

Yes. This idea is called space based solar. Wouldn't it be great if we had invested in putting that in place rather than wars in the middle east? We could have built a pretty robust system by now.

 

[babe]

That would certainly have a profound effect on the climate. Solar farms in space have far better scalability and potential. Not only would it provide infinite power to Earth 24/7, but it would also power any space structures we build.

Get it done people.

hard to tell, sometimes, where ideas go off the rails. The Great Tesla Myth of infinite power macines milking the electrical potential between upper atmospheric ionized regions and the ground, which drives lightning worldwide, using essentially giant lightning rods..... could just be dismissed as laughable, and have been, by our energy moguls with their feet planted in tar.

When cold fusion was announced by Pons and Fleishman, there was a concerted media blitz, and paid scientific stooges sent out to debunk it, again on point for the oil energy moguls.

We do not know a lot, but the people with the money do manage our information to their interests, and steer our efforts in science. Cold Fusion is an active research field pursued by a number of scientists who've accepted marginalization and no funding as just a political phenomenon, and gone on with the good work.

Here is one I know:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y789MlhCCgo

 

[♪alt13]

That would certainly have a profound effect on the climate. Solar farms in space have far better scalability and potential. Not only would it provide infinite power to Earth 24/7, but it would also power any space structures we build.

Get it done people.

Wait. Solar has just recently become economically competitive and you want to add tens of thousands of dollars of cost per pound to each panel? Let's put them on rooftops and in the desert first eh?

 

[NAOS]

Yes. This idea is called space based solar. Wouldn't it be great if we had invested in putting that in place rather than wars in the middle east? We could have built a pretty robust system by now.

by "we" I hope you don't mean the daymn federhal goberment. ****ers can't do anythin right even with the media bias.

 

[Siro]

Wait. Solar has just recently become economically competitive and you want to add tens of thousands of dollars of cost per pound to each panel? Let's put them on rooftops and in the desert first eh?

I'm really talking about the future. Part of the space infrastructure that I'd like to see built over the next century, allowing for the eventual construction of large space habitats.

 

[Stoked]

I'm really talking about the future. Part of the space infrastructure that I'd like to see built over the next century, allowing for the eventual construction of large space habitats.

It's cool to see the advancements that humanity has made on the tech side but man I'd LOVE to see what advancements we make over the next several hundred years.

 

[Joe Bagadonuts]

It's cool to see the advancements that humanity has made on the tech side but man I'd LOVE to see what advancements we make over the next several hundred years.

The future will be filled with all sorts of amazing inventions that we can't even imagine today.