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I especially like how it comes on line in increments. You don't have to have a full plant built to start getting benefits.

I'm hoping something like this comes together. Please note, it's funded by private enterprise.

If this does work, what new problem will libs create in order to whine?
07-19-2005 11:36 AM
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DrTorch Wrote:I especially like how it comes on line in increments. You don't have to have a full plant built to start getting benefits.

I'm hoping something like this comes together. Please note, it's funded by private enterprise.

If this does work, what new problem will libs create in order to whine?
I just don't see the potential.... 03-razz
07-19-2005 11:40 AM
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GrayBeard Wrote:
DrTorch Wrote:I especially like how it comes on line in increments.  You don't have to have a full plant built to start getting benefits.

I'm hoping something like this comes together.  Please note, it's funded by private enterprise.

If this does work, what new problem will libs create in order to whine?
I just don't see the potential.... 03-razz
Dadgum invisible links. Try this:

<a href='http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050701/disruptor-slawson.html' target='_blank'>http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050701/disru...or-slawson.html</a>
07-19-2005 11:59 AM
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It's a good solution; but cold fusion is THE ultimate energy source.
07-19-2005 12:59 PM
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georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:It's a good solution; but cold fusion is THE ultimate energy source.
GTS's Sig is ...oh never mind!
07-19-2005 01:20 PM
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DrTorch Wrote:Dadgum invisible links.&nbsp; Try this:
Would you invest money with someone who "was running an alternative health care school in Portland, Oreg., in 1989"?

Covering 10,000 square miles (100x100) with dishes (if you assume a radius of 40 feet, it would require roughly 55 million dishes). At $25,000 apiece, that would be nearly $1.4 Trillion. For $403 million, plus $2million/year, so far he's built 6.

The thing I am most skeptical about is the claim that he owns the rights to technology developed for $400 million. I doubt that the companies involved would give something that valuable away, or sell it for that price if they thought it was valuable.

I have trouble believing someone who spent a decade running an alternative health care school, but it would be promising if he produces what he claims he can, on the scale he claims.

I have a general gripe about the following statement from the article (has more to do with the article's author):

Quote:Each dish focuses the equivalent of 10,000 suns’ worth of heat on an eight-inch-wide maze

So, 55 million times 10,000 ... We can create 550 billion suns worth of heat with (smoke) and mirrors!!! Much more impressive than saying the flux is 10,000 times the flux on the surface of the earth.

This is a very deceptive quote. The math is simple. If you have a mirror that's 4 square feet and focus it on a receiver that's 1 square foot, the flux on the receiver is 4 times the flux reaching the mirror. If you have dish that is 5000 square feet (80 foot diameter dish) and you direct the light on something that is 1/2 square foot (8 inch receiver), you have 10,000 times the radiation focused on the small surface than you do on the large surface. However, the amount of energy (heat in their terms) is the same reaching both surfaces.
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