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Well having talked to a group leader at ITER a few years ago, it was 35 years and I am pretty sure thats what the joke was...

I dont know, they kinda helped people to have enough reason to avoid a nuclear war. Not a bad thing in my book. I sure still have nuclear war nightmares after almost 20 years after the cold war. The late seventies and early eighties were scary times to grow up in. I never want this threat to be so i...

I would not go as far as some of these previous claims, but it is clear that you need to invest energy into farming for fuels (just like any farming). In addition to the farming you have to convert the sugar from the cropps into ethanol somehow. If you do this via a classic fermentation process then...

Here are a few things that I found quite interesting in regards to electric power in general, but that might also have applications for polywell. 1. http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13545-nanomaterial-turns-radiation-directly-into-electricity.html Now, I do kinda understand how this work...

Well just to put things into some relation: For less than 90 Megawatts of power, you need 4800 acres of land and 35 wind turbines. Now to bring this into relation, 90 Megawatts is about a 1/15 th of what a small nuclear powerplant produces. 4800 acres are a lot of land. Assuming average sized lots, ...

Well, while I am personally hoping that it wont come down to using RLVs for bringing weapons into space (you know we do it, then the others will do it to and that never goes to well), I do aggree that having something like a real RLV would be awesome (if it is powered by a polywell, be my guest). Pe...

I was not very precise earlier, I appologize. I should have added that there is some upcoming(!) technology that might improve the picture for biofuels a bit. Scientists have been experimenting with genetically modified plants and microorganisms, mostly algae that might(!) provide biofuels from much...

The problem with bio fuels is that you need a lot (read A LOT) of farmland to supply a country like the US with the fuel that it uses. Further, biofuel is not quite as ecological as is widely believed and then there is the social economic problem that many, especially poor countries turn their farmi...

With golf class, I meant Volkswagen Golf, not golf cart (that would be ridiculous). Golf class is what we call the cars of the same size as a Volkswagen Golf here. I am sorry, I was falsly assuming that this would be internationally understood. Ok, I missunderstood, of course that is if I hit the ga...

Ok, please forgive me, I was under the assumption that the EESU would be in some kind of casing as well... Maybe not though? The articles stated nowhere that the encasement for the battery was part of the weight given here (in contrary given a powerdensity per Kg made it appear silly to assume that ...

Dont get me wrong, I am not saying that this is not a grea thing, it just seems that it does need a lot more weight to store the samte amount of energy. Yes, it would be smaller, but that does not help the weight much. You still need to move the extra weight which requires more power. The cat is bit...

Awesome work by Musk and his team. Very exciting indeed, even though not revolutionary, they did an awesome job!
Lets hope the best for them in the future, but I think that now things are only going to "go up"

hello Problem is, that even if their numbers are correct, the energy density of their energy storage is still much less than in gasoline. If you assume a 40 kg tank (which should equal a full gasoline tank in a smaller vehicle), then according to them you would get 18 KW/h of energy stored in this "...

Hello! I am new to this board and wanted to introduce myself before I start hounting threads here. I have been lurking arround here for a while and finally decided to sign up. I am from Austria and not a native English speaker, so please forgive me if I make one or the other mistake. I do not have a...