Shouldn't the costs be going down Jed? http://www.renewablesbiz.com/article/12/05/pge-says-it-will-meet-california-s-renewable-energy-goals&utm_medium=eNL&utm_campaign=RB_DAILY2&utm_term=Original-Member
As an engineer i have to deal with reality which focuses my creativity toward worthwile endevours. If LENR goes forward I would dismantle every utility scale solar plant (after the fission nukes and coal). I would use natural gas as a bridge Sorry I keep forgetting i can use unlimited ungrounded creativity and make stuff up. Robots for everybody! On Friday, June 1, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: > I wrote: > > >> Also, your "Robots" will need to clean 781 million mirrors per month >>> (monthly cleaning cycle) in the heat and sand of the desert. >>> >> >> So what? Use 100,000 robots. >> > > That would be 11 mirrors per robot per hour. That seems like a reasonable > task even for a slow moving robot. > > Maybe you need 200,000 robots. So what? I don't suppose they would be much > bigger or more powerful than a Roomba. > > Again, large numbers are nothing to be afraid of. Think of how many hard > disks are presently running in Google's servers worldwide: ~1.8 million. 40 > petaflops processor capacity. > > https://plus.google.com/114250946512808775436/posts/gTFgij36o6u > > The other day on NHK's "Today's Close-up" (クローズアップ現代) they talked > "big-data" and worldwide present storage and computatio > nal capacity. They said there are roughly as many bytes of data now stores > as there are grains of sand on all of the beaches of the world. > > They are doing remarkable things with big-data flows, such as mapping > traffic from GPS enabled transponders to reduce traffic accidents and > traffic jams. > > - Jed > >
