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| Topic | Feels like we're due for a big technical breakthrough. What do you hope/think we |
| Sahuagin 02/14/21 1:21:24 AM #12: | fusion power "should" be getting off the ground eventually, and if/when that happens it will be major. but I wouldn't bet on it happening this decade. Smarkil posted... the development of a battery using new technologywhile better battery tech is definitely something important to have, there's kind of a limit on how much energy density you can achieve, and even if you increase the energy density, it means that you have even more volatile substances. Smarkil posted... That's the biggest issue we have with renewable resources like solar and wind - they're inconsistent. They potentially can generate all the power we need, but as soon as the sun goes down or the wind stops we effectively have nothing.rather than "batteries" there are forms of large-scale energy storage. pumping entire lakes of water up into a reservior that can then flow back down later running hydro generators, or lifting heavy weights. (one energy storage plant just lifts and stacks concrete blocks into a tower, and then lowers them one by one when energy is needed.) (supposedly almost all of the world's energy storage uses the pumped hydro idea, but you need the right terrain to make it possible. the stacked blocks idea is new and hopefully something that can be more widely used.) --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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