On 07/05/2014 18:57, Quadibloc wrote:
On Tuesday, May 6, 2014 6:27:21 PM UTC-6, Uncarollo2 wrote:

new forms of electric storage are only about 5 years away.

Although there might be a breakthrough in terms of fast recovery
capacitors backed by slower battery storage they are never going to
compete with pumped storage reservoirs for grid balancing.

And in cars you have the *very* big problem that any sealed chemical
battery has to carry all its reactants around with it. Fuel cells at
least have the advantage like combustion of taking oxygen from the air
but they are far too tetchy about the purity of their fuel.

Do you know how long ago fusion power was only 10 years away?

John Savard

Commercial fusion power has been 50 years away since the 1960's when we
were also promised nuclear fission electricity "too cheap to meter" in
the glory days of the white heat of technology "revolution".

There were a heck of a lot of third rate nuclear physics technicians
teaching physics in the 1970's when promises failed to materialise.

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Regards,
Martin Brown