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Most of the electricity in the U.S. is generated by coal. A significant portion of coal production goes to power plants to be burned. In time, as more and more smaller reactors are built, this demand will drop. This is one of the main political obstacles I can see, union bosses can see the future as...

Arts, mostly. I'm trying to get into robotics, but the programming is killing me. Had a nice intro to C++, but not so much about linkers and compilers and how to shop for and use them. I suppose I should try to find some more info online, but I'm partly lazy, and partly I don't learn on my own very ...

The molten salt reactors generally use thorium for the main fuel. I'd have to refresh myself on the exact fuel cycle, but I'm thinking this: The salt circulates through a moderated area where the fission actually takes place. If you set this loop up right, you could use a convection current rather t...

I forgot that copper is another metal made with electrical processes. I recently read about a new process for titanium that uses a high temp electrolytical process, and I'm sure there's others. Desalinization is another that's been mentioned and I forgot to put on the list. Either process for doing ...

I believe that our representative democracy works. In fact, the media has no ultimate power over the Constitution. We have one example of how they have power right there. We're a republic , not a democracy, no matter how they try to twist the words(I heard the term representative democracy in intro...

A look at the binding energy curve can be helpful if you want to get exotic. Most enlightening. I knew that stars will fuse up to iron or so, so the simple question is if you don't have a whole lot of boron, and you don't want to burn drinking water or some such(and with sufficient advancement, a l...

Sounds good. How's the part about burning much heavier fuels sound?

How hard is it to get pure water? Pure enough to make the irradiation negligible, anyway.

The polywell would drop the cost of electricity to next to nothing. We've already had a number of things listed that this would affect: Aluminum production Spaceflight Domestic energy production Transportation in general, eventually But basically, any process that requires massive amounts of power w...

Just how radioactive does water get? Last I knew, it wasn't a whole lot. You have to convince the ignorant of that, of course, but that's another story. I'm seeing three memes in this thread: You have technical challenges related directly to the polywell. We can really only speculate on these, since...

I'd imagine most commercial ships have enough room that a good dry dock can pull a diesel or turbine and replace it with a polywell and accessories. For cars and trucks, put an overhead in the right lane. You cruise for a while, then move over and raise your doodad to draw power. You charge like a s...

I was under the impression that there was a minimum size needed. That's the main reason they're looking at the 100MW machine. You'd probably need to get it 1 meter or less to put in a current truck. Otherwise you'd be looking at something like this: http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/02/huge-off-h...

What kind of radiation would need to be shielded in a PB11 reaction? Call it cheesy, but I thought it'd cool to have windows up top of the reactor to let that cool bluish-white light out.

There are plugless chargers out now. Plate with a coil in it is set on your dresser. When you get home, you set your phone on it, and the current in the coil in the plate inducts a current in a coil in the phone. Much closer, more efficient. If you put a similar coil or set of coils underground, and...

How's about something like this:
http://autogeny.org/tower/tower.html