HiPER - High Power laser Energy Research (Part 2)

[Bcontinued]

Tesla would be laughing his ass off if he was here to see your plans and going through that much trouble to produce electricity.

[Shyhalu]

Holy Crap! Gordon Freeman at 4:50! Not good people, not good!

[tehpsy]

OMG SEXY GUY AT 0:40!!!!

[TmSergey]

this sort of reminds me of the videos in doom 3 :p

and i agree with FlamingPope .. steam tubrines ? why not laser powered horse dynamo ..?

[Santoslhelpa]

the energybill of those lasers cant be positive

ithink iter combines ehating some microwave some laser some selffriction

[Swidhelm]

Question: Would this technique turn water into a commodity, and future generations find oceans depleted, rivers costly and guarded, lakes nearly gone?

[Bobajobimus]

Prsuming the human race stays selfish and devided.

Yes

[Swidhelm]

heh, so pretty much no really a great line of research considering our own nature. :P

[Indrius]

No. The fuel source is practically inexhaustible for billions of years.

[FlamingPope]

He was doing good until 4:05. "Superheat water, drive a steam turbine and so generate electricity."

I never really understood why we're still using the same brute methods to force movement of electrons.

I mean this IS great, but we should also be investing R&D for energy capture. Otherwise we would be wasting the left over 70%, which would most likely end up as heat pollution.

[insme]

Yes, I've been wondering too as to why that method has been used over and over again. They should really take a look into that matter for the sake of abundant energy.

[RocketSpecialist]

@FlamingPope

FYI when they talk about nuclear power, well nuclear reactors in those plants do the same, they heat water. Agreed its overused but its a simple and cost effective way of producing electricity since its "clean" energy

[Shyhalu]

@RocketSpecialist "Clean" energy, in exchange for 100+ million degrees doing who knows what to our planet if they screw up. Solar power is the way to go, we already have the technology.

[L00NGB00W]

@FlamingPope

I agree that more effective use could likely be made of the excess waste heat.

One of the reasons water is used is that it absorbs both heat, and radiation. And the abundance means you don't have to condense and store it.

Thermoelectric (Peltier cooler) devices could perhaps be used, to draw more heat from the system.

Or similar to some other industrial projetcts, like COGEN turbines. A reactor facility could provide heating and hot water for local industries.

[HousseGroove]

Woaww

[keyofdavid88]

no, DNA isn't enough, let's go against the most sacred of all natural structure in the name of Instant Gratification.

going against nature is ALWAYS the wrong thing to do

[fatansassy911]

awsome.