New type of gravity power plant offers chance to be landmark use of fusion

[Daecon]

No.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

you say no but deep down I bet you think it's a pretty neat trick.

 

[billvon]

One motivation that's being overlooked, and i think a pretty strong one, is the fact that deep down I think everyone wants to see a huge mountain of rock blasted out of the ground.

Seen it:

 

[exchemist]

you say no but deep down I bet you think it's a pretty neat trick.

No, deep down we all wonder whether you are writing from your home or from a secure medical institution somewhere.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

No, deep down we all wonder whether you are writing from your home or from a secure medical institution somewhere.

I'm writing to you from deep below the surface of the earth

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

anyways the priority here is to get bought up by oil companies as an addition to there energy generating not replace it.

 

[origin]

anyways the priority here is to get bought up by oil companies as an addition to there energy generating not replace it.

Well, good luck then. I wouldn't quit my day job if I was you, however.

 

[billvon]

anyways the priority here is to get bought up by oil companies as an addition to there energy generating not replace it.

Ah so you are a patent troll! Note that to be a patent troll you actually have to have a patent - which you do not.

 

[exchemist]

Ah so you are a patent troll! Note that to be a patent troll you actually have to have a patent - which you do not.

But he does in fact have a published Canadian patent application. He gave the reference a couple of pages back. I expect his patent agent and the patent examiner will have had a wry chuckle or two over it.

 

[billvon]

But he does in fact have a published Canadian patent application.

Right - he has a patent application, not a patent. (I currently have 35 patent applications, but only 19 actual patents - since only 19 have been approved and issued.)

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

Hey if it weren't for radiation I would be telling you all systems go on replacing fossil fuels with this system as there is billions of years of fusion fuel on the planet.If not usable at all then someone should use it in a science fiction novel about the future with lasers. I'll get around to it I bet but someone else is welcome to do it first.

 

[billvon]

Hey if it weren't for radiation I would be telling you all systems go on replacing fossil fuels with this system as there is billions of years of fusion fuel on the planet.

There are billions of years of fusion fuel in the Sun. And it's already fusing. And we can already use that power, and replace fossil fuels with it.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

There are billions of years of fusion fuel in the Sun. And it's already fusing. And we can already use that power, and replace fossil fuels with it.

so your all green no blue everyone else is black, not east black though, swish. Blue for sale.albatross.

 

[billvon]

so your all green no blue everyone else is black

Nope, I am more a "try everything and use the best of what works" kind of guy.

not east black though, swish. Blue for sale.albatross.

Are you drunk?

 

[exchemist]

Nope, I am more a "try everything and use the best of what works" kind of guy.

Are you drunk?

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

People could make energy on the moon using this idea and the craters from meteor strikes to provide power to a futuristic civilization.

 

[DaveC426913]

People could make energy on the moon using this idea and the craters from meteor strikes to provide power to a futuristic civilization.

How do craters make energy?

 

[Russ_Watters]

How do craters make energy?

Divert a river to them and run a turbine with it.

 

[DaveC426913]

Divert a river to them and run a turbine with it.

Tricky to do on the Moon.

But that won't stop our indefatigable Trevor.

 

[trevor borocz johnson]

How do craters make energy?

A crater is created by energy. You gain back a certain efficiency of that energy by refilling the crater. In the instance of the moon you could lower moon rock and dirt from the side of the crater down into it operating a generator. You could use mountains too and other landscape features.