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

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Brian H wrote:

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

Choice of style. I’d leave it to Rezwan 🙂

Brian H wrote:
[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.]

That’s using current growth extrapolations, which are constrained in no small part by the same limits on power availability that you refer to. To enable an actual global switchover to EV’s will require customers to be able to have a wider latitude as to when to recharge… and that will require both more power and more grid. But the idea obviously needs to be rephrased in the text….

Brian H wrote:
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.]

That’s why I want to get ahead of it… before the Pons/Fleischman junior memorial league get the fusion tag all screwed up again in the public mind. If they actually have something there are easier and more professional ways for them to prove it. Though I don’t think the rest of the world should hold its breath waiting for that to happen 🙂

Brian H wrote:
These various companies are trying different methods of achieving 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.

That works.

Brian H wrote:
Yes, they are. Even the most basic forms of fusion power under study should solve humanity’s power issues permanently… and safely.

Oops… dropped a conditional without making the necessary change…

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

And that works too… thanks for your input 🙂