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It says that because the researcher was thinking about solar power and 'synthetic photosynthesis'. But like you said, solar needs to come a little
ways more. Not much, I think, because we got people in Phoenix, AZ that are getting checks from the power company for the energy their solar panels put back
into the grid.
It doesn't really sound like photosynthesis at all though...
And that's good for people in Phoenix, but they are from my understanding in an ideal location for solar power. For places with less sun, they'll have
to get a lot cheaper to be economical. After all, whether you're getting a significant amount of energy from them or not, they still end up needing to be
replaced after a while...
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So you want centralized power? Say hello to my little friend, the pebble bed reactor. It is a nuclear reactor that scares the shit out of the oil companies because its inherent passive
safety features render all the active and highly redundant safety features in the common light-water reactor completely useless.
And that article you mentioned... Did it happen to be this one?
Anything that works. I'm a fan of redundant backups. (I've seen nuclear with gas/oil/whatever for backup suggested as an ideal system.)
And no. The article I read would have been something in a magazine over ten years ago.
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Quote:I guess I need to remind you of this while I'm at it. Just replace that internal combustion engine and generator with
This advance does nothing to improve the operation of my bitchin' meatcar.
some hydrogen fuel cells and we'll be good to go.
Now why would a bitchin' meatcar have something as silly as an internal combustion
engine in it? After all, it already has something much sillier...
-Morgan. Infinite oregano!