Reply To: FOCUS FUSION REACTOR

[jjohnson]

Good comments. I try to watch all the storage and generation devices, and don’t pick favorites. Hadn’t heard of Elton Musk’s crash-testing but am glad it shows his LiI batteries are safe. Love his cars, even if I can’t afford one at their price point. Also it’s good to see improvements in batteries coming along, expected given the sudden rise in interest and funding, finally. Whether utracaps take up too much space or not – I don’t know the size range that would be needed, so can’t compare. My hope for good (read efficient and cost-effective) solar is just part of the general hope that we can have affordable, reliable and abundant power source(s) to sustain us. FF is far and away the most promising right now, both in terms of promising progress already, and the fact that, if it works as advertised, will not depend on time of day or weather conditions or time of year to work, unlike other ‘renewable” resources.It is interesting to contemplate scaling FF units down as well as up. There are lots of low power apps which could use an efficient source that doesn’t require a plug to the grid. Plasma scales, so it’s possible to have a nano-FF device instead of batteries, depending, of course, on what might need to be carried with it as control and support, etc. If round the clock FF devices go online, storage devices like batteries and ultracaps will find application for emergency power, perhaps, although even that might be obtained by smaller emergency FF generators on-site as back-up power.