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The COLD FUSION race just heated up
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07-02-2015 10:14am#1From WIRED
Jan 2015
LINKThe arguments about the Lugano Report continue, meanwhile there has been an even more surprising development. Prof Alexander Parkhomov of Lomonosov Moscow State University has published a paper describing his successful replication of the E-Cat, based on the available information about it. The paper is in Russian; there is a link and commentary and video in English on E-Cat World. Parkhomov's results are more modest, but the energy output of his cloned E-Cat claimed to be up to 2.74 times as great as the input.
Feb 2015
An attempt by the Martin Fleischmann Memorial Project to replicate E-Cat, Andrea Rossi's alleged cold fusion reactor, ended explosively yesterday after the reactor heated to over 1,000C. Link
Bill Gates visits Rossi's cold fusion university LINK and LINK
Note some commentators are dubiously linking these developments to recent oil price movements. LINK
Norwegian magazine TU (Teknisk Ukeblad) "If this is true Oil is worthless" LINK
In an effort to not drag up an old post that is not really relevant anymore (and so should not be done) please see these older posts for some context
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ORalthough if you could use the energy to restore potential energy when demand is low... I.e. use it to pump the water back up into the hydroelectric dam at night.
I think some american companywas proposing this for wind energy combined with Hydroelectric power in Ireland but Illuminati etc...
you could look at what's been happening in Germany where renewables are crucifying pumped storage because there is no longer the guaranteed margin.
If fusion depends on storage then it will have to be cheaper than solar which is still falling in price on both volume and plenty of solar breakthroughs that are waiting to be commercialised.
Bifacial panels that can use light from both sides giving about 10% extra. Cells based on cheaper materials than silicon. Cheaper silicon as new methods of production are available. It's getting to the stage where the ancillary costs are more than the panels. But cost and efficiency improvements are happening with cabling and electronics too. And integrating solar in new build is cheaper than retrofitting.
Fission shows that it can be very, very expensive to harvest "cheap" energy.
Energy density is very important too. Wave energy sounds good at 50KW/meter off our coast. That's 1 GW per 20Km. But the construction costs would be enormous. The one nice thing about wave energy is that it shows up after windy weather because it's mostly wind energy stored as ocean waves and so stretches the times we can use wind.
Probably cheaper than pumped storage too
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