Optical fibre light transmission isn't lossless. Feeding it into the fibre and switching it around is even more lossy. Lossy means here some part of light gets transformed into heat which makes the power you could transmit over average optical fibers rather limited.
We can use electrical energy much more universally than radiation energy anyway.
iooo007, I believe it can be done. You could basically build such a network to transfer solar energy but on very small scale (few KMs max). Benefits here are so huge, I think this is something worth researching. Hope the guys at the 10^100 project think so too!!
macsaba - impossible - no. BUT, it's true that using current technology, building such a fiber network would be VERY expansive.
The thing is, if we got the technology right for this, within reasonable costs, think of all the advantages. I strongly believe that a research project with bright enough people should at least look into it and come up with initial conclusions regarding the feasibility of this.
Optical fibre light transmission isn't lossless. Feeding it into the fibre and switching it around is even more lossy. Lossy means here some part of light gets transformed into heat which makes the power you could transmit over average optical fibers rather limited.
We can use electrical energy much more universally than radiation energy anyway.
sytxr 2 years ago
what is the name of the song?
sameshit12 2 years ago
everything in its right place , radiohead. you should watch vanilla sky
solargrid 2 years ago
iooo007, I believe it can be done. You could basically build such a network to transfer solar energy but on very small scale (few KMs max). Benefits here are so huge, I think this is something worth researching. Hope the guys at the 10^100 project think so too!!
solargrid 3 years ago
in theory looks great but it can be done? will the 2 mil from google be enough?
iooo007 3 years ago
:) sad, but this is impossible :)
macsaba 3 years ago
macsaba - impossible - no. BUT, it's true that using current technology, building such a fiber network would be VERY expansive.
The thing is, if we got the technology right for this, within reasonable costs, think of all the advantages. I strongly believe that a research project with bright enough people should at least look into it and come up with initial conclusions regarding the feasibility of this.
solargrid 3 years ago
It wolud be never cheap enough.
macsaba 3 years ago
But OK anyway this is a nice idea....
macsaba 3 years ago
Fascinating idea. We need this!
SuperCowCowViewer 3 years ago
Fascinating. This idea needs to be explored further. Support Afigma, to make your idea a possible future.
Afigma 3 years ago