On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 21:52:19 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
The bottom line is that to be truly green, we have to spend
millions of
years building up reservoirs of fuel built from solar energy.
The rate
at which we're burning up energy in today's society is simply
untenable
in the long run.
I don't believe this is true. It's a technological hurdle, but I
don't see any reason that it's an insurmountable one.
(Well, there's always nuclear energy, of which there is
plenty to go around, but it comes with other disadvantages. :-P
Some
days you win, most days you lose.)
T
Surely you mean most days you win, some days you lose? Nuclear is
great 99.9% of the time, the someone doesn't do their job
properly and wooops....
My hopes are with fusion. Specifically ITER. My research is on
diagnostics/data analysis for tokamaks, working with the guys at
Culham, UK (MAST and JET). They are cautiously optimistic.
