I’ve always liked the idea of breaking away from the steam era
tcg wrote: The Plasma Focus, along with solar, has the further distinction of not even having any moving parts, if I understand the mechanism correctly.
But we’ll still have lots of vacuum pumps, cooling pumps. Also I think most large scale solar would be mirrors heating a pumped liquid not photovoltaics – at least until they can break away from silicon to some cheaper & more efficient fabrication method.
