Re: DON'T LOSE time and money around the fusion energy illusion and the lunar-helium-3 dream!!!

On 28 Ago, 21:25, Joe Strout <j...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"moron", "I know you're a troll", etc.

A: if you (really) "know" me, then you should know also that insults
have ZERO effects on me

"lunar geologists all seem to agree that there is ... do you have some evidence they don't have, or what?"

A: they agree to a THEORY that "seems" credible but too optimistic...
in my opinion, this theory flaws on a critical point: He3 is a gas and
the lunar gravity can't keep it, also, the meteorites haven't help He3
to remain on the moon since they are RARE from billions years while
the He3 is dispersed in space in every second... probably a little
quantity of He3 there is on the moon, but not so much as claimed...
however, THEY must give us the evidence that a lunar-He3 exists, not
the inverse... :)

"We currently derive about 10^13 watts from fossil fuels, and mid-century power requirements are likely to be several times that, even taking into account efficiency improvements."

A: the winning factor of a technology is its PRICE, not its
efficiency... the problem is simple: in the next decades oil and
methane will still be abundant (but their prices will double, triple,
quadruple) while the (already competitive) wind turbines' prices will
soon fall to half, one third, etc. ...the consequence of that is clear

"it's intermittent and low-density, so use on that scale would require radical reengineering of our power grids"

A: that's probably true (in part) but we can build the wind plants
with some redundancy and store the excess of energy as H2 ...no matter
how much costs nor the problems to solve, since we'll be FORCED to do
that by the oil price growt and (someday) by the oil end

"there are some alternative approaches worth funding"

A: I know the Bussard proposal, but, also the lowest cost fusion,
never can be so low cost like a wind turbine... and still remains
unsolved the problems and costs to bring back the lunar helium... if
any... :)

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