A non-anuetronic Fusion reactor would be second best.
A Thorium reactor would be down the line a little.
A Thorium - Plutonium Fission reactor would be much better than the Plutonium reactors we have today, that are dangerously radioactive and create radioactive spent fuel that will be around for tens of thousands of years.
The Thorium oxide / Plutonium oxide fuels will be much safer / cleaner than todays Fission reactor fuels.
A somewhat dated but sort of cool intro to Nuclear Fusion Energy.
Of course I believe there is an ongoing conspiracy to delay the creation of a commercial Nuclear Fusion Reactor.
The official timetable for a fusion reaction has be 50 years out for a least 50 years running, and is still 50 years out.
Now, in recent times there is a young man working for Lockheed Martin claiming to have an idea for a truck trailer sized Fusion Reactor that will happen much sooner.
However, in the first video I saw of this, it was stated that he / they would have a working prototype reactor in 5 years, first to be delivered to the US military, then one to the commercial sector 10 years out.
The last time I saw the same Lockheed Martin man interviewed it was 10 years out for the military version and 20 years out for the commercial version.
That puts it out to 2035.
See what I mean.
That gives them plenty of time to change the timeline to 2050 or whatever.
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A the end of the video Robert L. Hirsch says we should be looking at a commercial Fusion Reactor by the beginning of the 21st century. Still nothing solid to report.
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FYI.
Everyone seems to be stating that we need a fuel other than pure hydrogen to use in the reaction.
By not using pure hydrogen we have 2 negatives:
Non-pure Hydrogen reaction produces some radioactivity
Will not allow direct to electricity creation. Will need to heat steam to make electricty
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I think the making of a Fusion Reactor can be done now.
We need to band together and make it happen ourselves.
No governments, no military, no corporations, no globalists.
GREENBACKS: Even in hot, sunny places like
Florida, there are still seasons when production slows down due to weather.
PHOTO: ERIK KELLAR PHOTOGRAPHY
How It Works The clear plastic bags used in the direct-to-ethanol technology look like giant hanging filefolders. Each bag is 10 feet by four feet, 2 inches deep and has capacity of 50 liters. The bag is filled with saltwater, which is inoculated with algae culture. All green plants, including algae, take in water and CO2 from the atmosphere, and combine those elements as a precursor to sugar, which, with Algenol’s two-step direct-to-ethanol process, is immediately converted to ethanol. In the end, 85 percent of the carbon consumed produces ethanol and the remaining 15 percent is spent algae.
When that process is complete, a simple centrifuge is used for separation. Spent algae goes one way and liquid goes another. Next comes a two-step ethanol purification process, the first of which is patented by Algenol and the second is no different than the method used by the corn-ethanol industry, he adds. The remaining biomass, or spent algae, is turned into green crude in a six-minute process, which can potentially be sent to a refinery to produce mostly gasoline or diesel and some jet fuel. The four fuels can be produced for about $1.30 a gallon each, the company says. ARTICLE: A Florida algae-to-ethanol operation is poised to go commercial scale Author: Holly Jessen Managing Editor, Ethanol Producer Magazine 701-738-4946 hjessen@bbiinternational.com --- We need as many ways to produce fuels as possible. We should be very happy with each new one that happens. Remember there are already many ways to produce Hydrogen & Ethanol.
10% of Corn goes for human consumption.
Spike in price would more likely have to do with rain / drought.
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP is made from DAH....
-- Side Note
FRUCTOSE (Corn) is NOT the BAD sugar.
SUCROSE (Cane Sugar) is the BAD sugar.
- more complex for body to deal with
-more stuff from people with agendas
-- I learned this stuff when I was on a semi-health kick back in 1980ish.
I used to buy FRUCTOSE in little packets from the health food store.
guess why.
Hey gang.
ETHANOL is made from the NON-GRAIN part of the corn plant that WE DON'T EAT.
There are plants that we don't eat (like grasses) that can be used to make ETHANOL too.
Brasil is BIG on ETHANOL, they use a lot of SUGAR CANE to make theirs.
Most people you read or hear talking about ETHANOL ill-effecting our HUMAN food supply, usually will be a PRO-FOSSIL FUEL/ANTI-ETHANOL guy for whatever reason.
Jay Leno was just talking down ETHANOL after years of talking it UP.
WHAT UP?
We have been breathing foul dirty air now for 100 years.
It's better to have something going on as opposed to NOTHING!
Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.
Biomass ethanol is ``ethanol made from non-grain plant materials known as biomass.''Biomass ethanol would use the corn stover from the corn crop produced in areas around ethanol plants. Wikipedia
Maize stover, together with other lignocellulosic biomass, provides about the potential 1.3 billion tons of raw materials that could produce future fuel in the next 50 years.Wikipedia
Corn stover, Panicum virgatum (switchgrass), Miscanthus grass species, wood chips and the byproducts of lawn and tree maintenance are some of the more popularcellulosic materials for ethanol production. Wikipedia
Corn stover consists of the leaves and stalks of maize (Zea mays ssp. mays L.) plants left in a field after harvest and consists of the residue: stalk; the leaf, husk, and cob remaining in the field following the harvest of cereal grain.” Stover makes up about half of the yield of a crop and is similar to straw.
Dianne Feinstien & Pat Toomey have introduced a bill to take the mandated ETHANOL out of GASOLINE.
BAD MOVE.
We should be upping the about of ETHANOL in the mix.
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Start paying attention to the SMELL OF OUR AIR.
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It has been demonized for messing with the CORN market.
Most any plant can be used to make ETHANOL.
If we don't want to mess with American Corn Market, we can use other plants to make it, or buy it from other countries,
Brasil, Norway use it now.
The Washington politicians are not working in our best interest on this issue.
BIG DIRTY DOLLARS ARE AT WORK HERE.
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What I really don't like is them playing on peoples ignorance.
Ignorance does not mean you are stupid, it just means you don't know.
Even little microbes can make ETHANOL.
It would have been a good intermediate fuel until we can do H2 & EV.
Energy Harvesting is getting little bits (or big bits) of energy from sources normally not used for that purpose.
NOW.
If we KEEP DOING THIS, continuing to develop technologies that get power from places that were ignored before, the total amount of energy from ENERGY HARVESTING will eventually be enough to take over from our usual sources like "THE GRID," or "BATTERIES."
ALSO,
I can see a future where we develop POWER CONSUMING devices that use very little power, so we may move to a society where stuff is sort of "POWERED" by nothing.
SORT OF.
Things that could be powered by "NOTHING:
CELL PHONES
LIGHTS
TV'S
RADIO'S
COMPUTERS
Power generating devices whose extra power is being "THROWN AWAY:"
Grapes, Grains, Potatoes, Molasses, Horseradish, Sugar Beets, Fruits, Oats, etc.... Cow waste ... yep! All kinds of dying, rotting things...
We can buy the ETHANOL on the global marketplace like we do oil.
We can buy the source materials from the global marketplace and make SOME OF IT ourselves.
The source materials can be from a large variety of plants and algae.
The State of Wisconsin exports ETHANOLto CANADA.
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Saying that vehicles today cannot run on ETHANOL is not correct.
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The ETHANOL part of the mix should NOT BE TAXED or REVERSE TAXED to make it a better deal than GASOLINE.
The more the ETHANOL the cheaper the FUEL.
We should do this until H2 and pure ELECTRIC vehicles are well established.
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Haven't researched it yet, but I don't see a pure battery solution dominating until you can run your heater / defroster, air conditioning, lights, mega stereo, etc all at once over a medium distance without worrying about running out of juice.
