In article <g075i6$1v8$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>How many uses can you think of for a multiple gigwatt
>generator that has no waste heat or radiation issues, that
>is smaller than a block of butter?
Other than making Amory "It would be nothing short of
disastrous if we were to find a source of cheap, clean,
abundant energy" Lovins' head explode? OK, after that...
Yeah. I haven't seen Iron Man yet, but similar lines of
thought ran through my head at the end of the first "Back to
the Future" movie, where it seems 1.2 Jiggawatt <sic> fusion
powerplants are something you buy off the shelf at Walmart,
called "Mr. Fusion."
Well... Everything. Energy truly is not only too cheap to
meter, you don't need to meter it because everybody can buy
a generator producing more power than they can find a use
for at Walmart. Desalination on a grand scale. With cheap,
clean, abundant energy, all the pollution sources associated
with energy production go away, and all the other sources
of polution, with cheap, abundant energy, can be dealt with.
Oh, yeah... and those flying cars we were promised. And
cheap access to orbit, and the rest of the Solar System.
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