Reply To: Okay, Let's Stop The BAKE SALE mentality and get SERIOUS

[Brian H]

zapkitty wrote: Edited: Saturday, October 15 2011 12:30 PM… the first of many edits 🙂

Outline of a rough draft. Too verbose. Needs serious trimming and condensing.
But it shows roughly where I’m headed. Thoughts?

Not Enough Juice For The Grid[, And Not Enough Grid For The Juice]
Get Fusion. [Get Fusin’] :cheese:

Electric vehicles will need cheap and widespread electric power and they will need it soon if the market is to grow at its full potential. But the grid is not designed to handle such heavy loads and current energy sources can’t grow the grid fast enough to keep up. [For the foreseeable future (a decade?) the charging will mostly occur in off-peak hours, and actually benefit power companies by making use of idle night capacity.]
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None of these alternative efforts are “Cold Fusion”. [It happens that Rossi’s LENR project is getting a lot of press right now. This might change the picture, and if it’s a failure, muddy the waters.] They are aiming for the real deal and several of them would use the same fuels at the same temperatures as the “Big Fusion” efforts but in smaller, more manageable devices. Other companies are reaching even further ahead for advanced fuels that would fuse at even higher temperatures in even smaller units.

So a variety of relatively small private projects are underway researching smaller, cheaper fusion units that could be easily added to a rapidly growing distributed grid.

These different [various] companies are trying different methods of achieving the goal of fusion power but they all have one thing in common… they need you. They need more investment. Especially investment from people who are not afraid to rock the twin boats of current government fusion research and current energy suppliers, [and whose needs are for results in years, not many decades].

Are such alternative studies worth the effort?

Yes, they are. Even the most basic forms of fusion power under study would [should or could] solve humanity’s power issues permanently… and safely.

It is research and there can be no guarantees but diversified [diversifying] investment in [into] at least some of these companies could be worthwhile… because if even one of them succeeds then it will change the world forever.

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