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free energy, but how much is the system going to run?
the batteries are the biggest reason I haven't gone off the deep end with solar panels, selling my energy back to the power company always rubbed me the wrong way for some reason.
what? just the idea rubs me so much the right way...
As long as we don't need the empire state building to generate enough useable power to run a light bulb, then this guy might be on to something.
what? just the idea rubs me so much the right way...
British invention, which may save the world and you can do ANYTHING with it and I mean anything.
How soon before its wasted by the British government and given to the US and China.
Agreed, he doesn't really mention where these films stand compared to current photovoltaics. Can't say covering a house in PV is really going to be sufficient to run your household, let alone skyscrapers.
I get a big brother vibe from it, I don't want them to know how much electricity I generate.
As opposed to currently knowing how much electricity you're using?
So he's basically just talking about fancy solar panels.
Everyone agrees that's where we're headed, but the technology isn't there yet to make it viable.
Maybe this is a long-winded way of saying he has viable solar panel technology on the horizon?
Call me cynical, but I'm having a hard time seeing how this is going to come to pass with huge ass oil and electric companies in the way...
Ever heard of LFTR's? Did you know that you can get a master's degree in nuclear engineering and never spend any time on the subject?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3rL08J7fDA
I think what he is trying to say is that oil and electric companies are very rich and powerful to the point that they will try their hardest to hinder other ideas and methods from succeeding. If that is what he is trying to say, I think he definitely has a valid point. Just look at how much money was pumped by oil companies to try to throw a monkey wrench into the theory of climate change by trying to confuse the general public. They were lobbying the US congress, senate and government(s) around the US/world with hundreds of millions of dollars.
Remember, if this energy idea has the potential to work as well as the guy in the tedtalk video says it does, it will put a fairly big hole in the pockets of oil and electric companies. Do you really think they will let a group of scientists come in and freely do that with open hands?? That is why he is cynical with how the idea will work out. Oil/electric companies have too many political/monetary power at the moment.
This is a neat idea but the guy is just selling hopes and dreams and blowing smoke up people's asses. FREE? he said it's going to be FREE? So carbon nanotubes cost nothing to produce? The machines that make them don't cost anything? The labor in installing all this shit is free? What about that super high tech battery? That's also free?
Give me a frickin break. This guy is CEO of a nanotube company... So how is his company going to run on FREE. I can't think of a company that has an income statement that says "Revenue = 0, Cost = 0, Net Income = 0. We don't need money, we run on hopes and dreams and our employees are unicorns so they don't need paychecks or health insurance!"
No wires just powered by the earths atmosphere. We do need clean energy, water and food sources, Alot of technologies are supressed by corporations through buy outs and then filing them permanently. For example electric car could have been out 10 years ago, Can guess who was behind stopping it this long, Big oil campanies. There needs to be solutions to basic human needs. I for one would love to see it happen. Until you get rid of corporate greed its going to take a long time to get anywhere. I wish Tesla was alive today.
This is a neat idea but the guy is just selling hopes and dreams and blowing smoke up people's asses. FREE? he said it's going to be FREE? So carbon nanotubes cost nothing to produce? The machines that make them don't cost anything? The labor in installing all this shit is free? What about that super high tech battery? That's also free?
Give me a frickin break. This guy is CEO of a nanotube company... So how is his company going to run on FREE. I can't think of a company that has an income statement that says "Revenue = 0, Cost = 0, Net Income = 0. We don't need money, we run on hopes and dreams and our employees are unicorns so they don't need paychecks or health insurance!"
He starts off sounding reasonable, talking about a few cool technologies and then goes WAY OFF into neverland thinking this will solve world energy problems. Lost me when his eyes got real big saying I--I will BEAM my light-power directly to you from my gleaming glass power tower.... LOL Justin Hall-Tripping.
This is a neat idea but the guy is just selling hopes and dreams and blowing smoke up people's asses. FREE? he said it's going to be FREE? So carbon nanotubes cost nothing to produce? The machines that make them don't cost anything? The labor in installing all this shit is free? What about that super high tech battery? That's also free?
Give me a frickin break. This guy is CEO of a nanotube company... So how is his company going to run on FREE. I can't think of a company that has an income statement that says "Revenue = 0, Cost = 0, Net Income = 0. We don't need money, we run on hopes and dreams and our employees are unicorns so they don't need paychecks or health insurance!"
If I was that guy, and once the tech was stable and I made my money back, I would sell the stuff at cost.
He does less than that, he can shove that picture in his wallet where the sun don't shine.