Fossils or Fusion? Your Energy Future
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Discuss In ForumsThanks to Mark Nelson for completing this fabulous video!
Technical help: I’ve uploaded it to Youtube and embedded it here. The original video (.mov) is available here. Note some difference in the sound synch between the two vids. Is there any way I can correct that on Youtube? Also, how do I change the still image? I want to have the starburst as the placeholder. Let me know. And now, Enjoy:
It asks a simple question: What is our energy future? Fossil fuel tragedies and wars for oil? Or fusion, the energy of the stars? And not just the clunky old fusion you’ve heard about, but aneutronic fusion of boron and hydrogen - the spaceship of fusion. Cleaner than regular fusion. Let’s do due diligence and make it happen. Video by FFS Member Mark Nelson, music by…
This video came out of collaboration on our forums.
We look forward to more collaborations and more videos! Start a discussion in the forums, brainstorm, and send us the finished product. We’ll be delighted to post it!
Thanks again Mark!
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Great work, Mark and Jordan! Long enough to say “the past doesn’t have to be the future”, yet short enough to not editorialize. Hope it takes off on YT!
Well done. Of cause there will be some fossil fuel use in the golden age of boron proton fusion.
My suggestions for a biofuel conversion on Dads vintage car is met with a lethal glare each time. lol.
@wesley: keep the car as it is, and power it with gasoline derived from the pyrolysis gases of organic wastes. plan to make it chemically identical to the fossil-derived fuel, but cheaper than oil from tar sands, due to cheap heat and electricity driving the process
Remember the size of the first computer? They show us pictures of it filling a very large room. Now fast forward to last year (I am still working on yesterday in my memory), the iPad $499.00 is an example of miniaturization for the moment. Wait until tomorrow. Put a Dense Plasma Fusion engine in a car and electric motors on all four wheels. Call it Formula II. Drive the vintage car and be proud of the steps taken and the new ones in front of you.
Since NOAA is now discovering that high aerosol levels result in thick cloud (=cooling) with little rain, while low levels result in popcorn cloud with more rain and sunshine, it would seem that much of the recent warming may be due to cleaning up the atmosphere. So have your Dad drive the vintage car with gasoline and lots of blue smoke out the tailpipe, to help alleviate the CO2 and aerosol shortages!
Brian H,
I get it! Humor, Right?
You had me going there for a moment. Try the veal I’m here all week!
Keep up the good work.
More like dead serious irony.
There is no way dads going to do the blue smoke thing. He has his pride you know. It would look like he got the rebuilding of the car wrong. That would be unacceptable.
Anyway wrong kind of aerosol. Most clouds are seeded by something called Dimethyl Sulphide (DMS). Its made by algae in the sea and yes It has a fundamental effect on rain and cloud formation. DMS production varies with rain so as rain freshens the sea surface you get less DMS as the sun heats and drives more evaporation you get more salinity and more DMS. Its wonderfully complex. Ash, dust from farms, pollen, bush fire ash, bacteria from forest trees all play a part in the formation of different kings of cloud but the base, over 90% is DMS.
I should say DMS varies with salinity. It protects algae from salt damage.
Interesting. Many times, tho’, it’s what’s changing “at the margins” which is of critical interest.
Speaking of sulphates and such, it appears that the whole “acid rain” thing was a wee mistake. The changes in forest vitality etc. track back to land use and other variables; acidic rain had SFA to do with it. And the billyuns that were poured into “fixing it”! What if something actually useful had been done with all that lucre!
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