This would be a real game changer

[Casper]

https://www.solveforx.com/moonshots/ahJzfmdvb2dsZS1zb2x2ZWZvcnhyEAsSCE1vb25zaG90GNKGAww/solve-for-x-charles-chase-on-energy-for-everyone

[shittygsxr]

I have already seen that movie

[redbarron77]

that would be very cool, and if it actually makes it to production, we should be able to see it within our life time.

But my tinfoil hat still says "The Man" will shut it down to keep us under their thumb.

[NinjaDoc]

If we consider how a telecommunication evolved over the years so fast, compared to that we should have been traveling in hovercrafts by now with solar energy, but the "the man" doesn't want that to happen I guess.

[Hailwood]

The engineer in me is very excited at the prospect of something this innovative, but the cynic in me thinks that it's too good to be true. Ultimately plentiful energy devices like this have been promised before, so I won't be excited until working prototypes have been put in service and validated.

[CBBaron]

  Hailwood said:

The engineer in me is very excited at the prospect of something this innovative, but the cynic in me thinks that it's too good to be true. Ultimately plentiful energy devices like this have been promised before, so I won't be excited until working prototypes have been put in service and validated.

Often the problem with some of these innovative energy sources is that the devil is in the details.

Nuclear fission power is one example. The energy produced is abundant. The raw materials are sufficient given the conversion rates. But waste products are difficult to dispose of and due to safety concerns construction costs and timelines are much worse than originally projected.

Fusion holds promise but the challenges are huge and the costs to hurdle those may make it unfeasible.

Craig

[Scruit]

Hopefully not another Cold Fusion debacle.

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Cold fusion gained attention after reports in 1989 by Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann, then one of the world's leading electrochemists,[1] that their apparatus had produced anomalous heat ("excess heat"), of a magnitude they asserted would defy explanation except in terms of nuclear processes. They further reported measuring small amounts of nuclear reaction byproducts, including neutrons and tritium.[2] The small tabletop experiment involved electrolysis of heavy water on the surface of a palladium (Pd) electrode.[3]

The reported results received wide media attention,[3] and raised hopes of a cheap and abundant source of energy.[4] Many scientists tried to replicate the experiment with the few details available. Hopes fell with the large number of negative replications, the withdrawal of many positive replications, the discovery of flaws and sources of experimental error in the original experiment, and finally the discovery that Fleischmann and Pons had not actually detected nuclear reaction byproducts.[5]

By late 1989, most scientists considered cold fusion claims dead

(Emphasis in red is mine)