Free energy

[Markp.com]

Actually, I think it's already been done. It's just incredibly inefficient.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...n+photovoltaic

"Nanosolar has developed a material of metal oxide nanowires that can be sprayed as a liquid onto a plastic substrate where it self-assembles into a photovoltaic film. A roll-to-roll process similar to high-speed printing offers a high-volume approach that doesn't require high temperatures or vacuum equipment. Nanosys intends for its solar coatings--based on structures called nanotetrapods--to be sprayed onto roofing tiles. And Konarka is developing plastic sheets embedded with titanium dioxide nanocrystals coated with light-absorbing dyes."

http://www.forbes.com/investmentnews...21soapbox.html

Here's what a wired nano looks like. See how small they are?

Have you seen those nano wires (well you won't have SEEN them) but they're of no use other than powering nano objects... and apparently they're so fragile that exposure to extreme heat or sunlight can just burn them up!

Way to go scientists!

[Ask The Geezer]

I'm thinking they must be like straw in adobe bricks, or fiberglass fibers in epoxy, just to bind them together, or in this case, to transfer elec-trons, which are pretty small too.

Unfortuantely, I don't have a picture of an elec-tron.

What is it with the word electr-on?

[ihoss.com]

Geezer, the problem with fission is what to do with whats left over. The best thing we can think of is to burry it and leave it down there for the next million years.

Frets, we have a diesel car and it has no problem starting (I live in Norway!!!)

Magnus, even the scientists needs to create the antimatter, and as you said, they do that by colliding particles. The energy requirerd for accelerating the particles is more than the energy recieved by the antiparticle and a particle colliding.

[Ask The Geezer]

Geezer, the problem with fission is what to do with whats left over. The best thing we can think of is to burry it and leave it down there for the next million years.

There is a dangerous left over from fission.

Care to guess where the raw material came from though? Out of a deep hole in the ground, where it had been safely sitting for millions of years.

BTW, I just saw a discussion on C-Span the other day. Turns out, they don't want to get rid of all the spent fuel rods now, they want to store them, til they can be re-refined and made into new fuel rods to re-use. It turns out that only 3% of the U-238 has worn out, and all it needs is to be re-refined to remove the used stuff.

we have a basically unlimited energy source

Well, until you run out of regular matter. Or the initial energy it takes to make the anti matter. So basically, if you can get a 50% efficiency out of it, you would break even, cause that 50% you would have to use to make the next batch.

[MagnusVS]

What is it with the word electr-on?

It's spelled ******** I think...

ah... is that a "bad" word?

Well, until you run out of regular matter.

I don't think you have to worry about that...:P

[gerbick]

I think he meant that elect-ron was being censored.

********. perhaps a spam site or banned member...