Alternative Energy Sources (Page 8) kittybobo34: Now that is an engineer,, turns a washer into a generator, in a brook that looks to be just a couple of gallons a minute. generating at max 2400 watts kittybobo34: New energy source, they have engineered a bacteria that strips hydrogen from sugar and cheaply. that plus fuel cells ,,, we are saved. https://lighthouse.mq.edu.au/article/september2/designer-bacteria-could-fuel-the-future-with-cheap-hydrogen  Fractured fairy tale: When I see any of these Arthickles that have the word might in it I take it with a Piece of How dare you and ever Increasing carbon Credits and Flying cars  Fractured fairy tale: France said there Building a Fusion Reactor , They reckon There Starting on it Now , As long as they dont sell the Techknology To Iraq like they did last time With Nucler power in the 1980"s should be all good , Totally 100% Pollution free that what they Reckon (Edited by Fractured fairy tale) Fractured fairy tale: Same Here Apprently tere spending billions , there going to get the Top Scientists and Suspend the Fusion in a Bubble of hydgron gas or Something , buts thats your area of Expertise, Funny hey All them People them yellow vests protesting for years for some Tax relief and they Cant afford it , But Suspending a Nuclear reation in a Bubble of hydrogen , No Problem they reckon Fractured fairy tale: https://www.energylivenews.com/2020/07/29/assembly-of-worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-reactor-begins-in-france/ There you go kitty the Hive even had a Link kittybobo34: Its what I thought, they are hoping to get to that break even point where they get more energy out than they put in. Even so they are still a long way from building a power source that can actually add to the energy grid. I wish them well Fractured fairy tale: I dont Understand How Its Supposed to work , How can they get More Energy out of it Than they put in, They reckon the sun will eventually burn its Self out , There Dreaming , There going to sell it to Iran or some one to recoup there losses arnt They , Oh well here we go Again kittybobo34: We need a couple of inventions to make it work.. Like room temperature superconductors, Force fields, or more efficient lasers. Or perhaps a totally different way to go about it. It might be much easier to do in space, where there is no gravity to screw with the suspended plasma. (Edited by kittybobo34)  ghostgeek: Two Harvard scientists have succeeded in creating an entirely new substance long believed to be the “holy grail” of physics — metallic hydrogen, a material of unparalleled power that could one day propel humans into deep space. The research was published in January 2017 in the journal Science. Scientists created the metallic hydrogen by pressurizing a hydrogen sample to more pounds per square inch than exists at the center of the Earth. This broke the molecule down from its solid state and allowed the particles to dissociate into atomic hydrogen. The best rocket fuel we currently have is liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, burned for propellant. The efficacy of such substances is characterized by “specific impulse,” the measure of impulse fuel can give a rocket to propel it forward. “People at NASA or the Air Force have told me that if they could get an increase from 450 seconds [of specific impulse] to 500 seconds, that would have a huge impact on rocketry,” Isaac Silvera, the Thomas D. Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences at Harvard University, told Inverse by phone. “If you can trigger metallic hydrogen to recover to the molecular phase, [the energy release] calculated for that is 1700 seconds.” [ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/holy-grail-metallic-hydrogen-is-going-to-change-everything?utm_source=pocket-newtab ] kittybobo34: Metallic hydrogen is also a super conductor. Does it stay as a metal once they have made it, and in normal atmospheric pressures? (Edited by kittybobo34) ghostgeek: I think that's what they're trying to find out. Metallic hydrogen has also been predicted to be a high- or possibly room-temperature superconductor. There are no other known room-temperature superconductors in existence, meaning the applications are immense — particularly for the electric grid, which suffers for energy lost through heat dissipation. It could also facilitate magnetic levitation for futuristic high-speed trains; substantially improve performance of electric cars; and revolutionize the way energy is produced and stored. But that’s all still likely a couple of decades off. The next step in terms of practical application is to determine if metallic hydrogen is indeed metastable. Right now Silvera has a very small quantity. If the substance does turn out to be metastable, it might be used to create room-temperature crystal and — by spraying atomic hydrogen onto the surface —use it like a seed to grow more, the way synthetic diamonds are made. [ https://getpocket.com/explore/item/holy-grail-metallic-hydrogen-is-going-to-change-everything?utm_source=pocket-newtab ] kittybobo34: IF it worked, it would be a major leap in technology. They recently figured out how to make sheets of graphine.. This is already changing the battery world. | Science Chat Room 2 People Chatting Similar Conversations |
