Reply To: T-shirt designers unite and take over

[Brian H]

Aeronaut wrote:

Each individual generator requires walk-around-space for servicing. I don’t know if the shells could be packed in closer together, but I doubt it would make much sense, for safety and operational reasons.

As for the wagon trains, hey, dramatic stuff will happen, but it’s not the road to acceptance and success. It’s the economics. Clean and quick helps, too.

Speaking of the money: your savings calculations require a base to compare the current costs to, as I mentioned. Even a line like, “Installed cost per Watt and output pricing will both be at most 1/20 of current normal market prices,” inserted before your numbers, would allow them to make sense.

New edit beefed up the headline and broke up the 18 bullet points into several small groupings with intro lines.

I like that installed costs qualifier. Look for it in the next edit. Walk-around space and rain protection, as well as instant relief complexes would be easy using trailers with fold-out sides, at least around the generators. This would automatically place trailers around 16 feet apart.

Even though I made a compelling (I hope) case for the economics- including shorting energy futures, and implying shorting competitors’ stocks 😉 ,look for a series using C-130s for their wagon train as the probability of unity gains traction in the popular culture.

Edit- new edit’s up.
Reality Check:
What a blissful, naive view of the media, industry and even academic response to promises and projections! I think it’s far more likely FF would be Palin-ized (smeared and sneered at in every way imaginable, and some not imaginable) until hard proof is in hand. Why, for the sake of a year or so’s (imaginary) public acceptance hurry-up, is it worth tempting that? It could poison the well for a long, long time.

With $Trillions on the table for existing special interests, from scientists to energy providers to utilities to commercial Greenness-obsession exploiters, counting on good will and even minimal “fairness” is dreaming in Technicolor. That all will be much better off on average after the “turnover” has little traction with vested interests. The only possible protection is a definitive “existence proof” that a generator is IN HAND which is putting out more usable energy than is put in.

Getting a sub-set of individuals, firms, and even pols onside early on is worthwhile, but a premature full-frontal assault on the common and elite consensus is taking a pea-shooter onto a heavy armor battleground.