Disruptive technology Nuclear powered Nano Diamond Battery proof of concept today

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/ https://newatlas.com/energy/nano-diamond-self-charging-batteries-ndb/
This doesn't sound like the usual pie in the sky decades away energy break through. Hard to even fathom the disruption to virtually every industry.
This would make our endless bickering about renewables and fossil fuels completely irrelevant.
Not sure if farmers would be winners, or losers.
Or it might get added to the long list of failed energy schemes.

[6V53]

I'm thinking a couple of 13 year olds in their mom's basement with one hell of a sense of humor, or maybe off shore scammers targeting Chuck and his buds.

[chuckChuck]

It will never work A5. It requires subsidies! You better go back to old reliable dirty coal!

Plus it is supported by a scientists that wants to reduce carbon emissions! How can you support that? LOL

“NDB has the potential to solve the major global issue of carbon emissions in one stroke without the expensive infrastructure projects, energy transportation costs, or negative environmental impacts associated with alternate solutions such as carbon capture at fossil fuel power stations, hydroelectric plants, turbines, or nuclear power stations."

[Hamloc]

It will never work A5. It requires subsidies! You better go back to old reliable dirty coal!

Plus it is supported by a scientists that wants to reduce carbon emissions! How can you support that? LOL

“NDB has the potential to solve the major global issue of carbon emissions in one stroke without the expensive infrastructure projects, energy transportation costs, or negative environmental impacts associated with alternate solutions such as carbon capture at fossil fuel power stations, hydroelectric plants, turbines, or nuclear power stations."

Did you read the article Chuckster? Actually no mention of subsidies, very interesting concept imo.

[6V53]

Did you read the article Chuckster? Actually no mention of subsidies, very interesting concept imo.

Did you watch the south park style video? They are looking for donations. People have too much time on their hands with the Covid Lock Down. The part with the super capacitors is plausible though.

[GDR]

I never understand how these companies seem to have a concept, knowledge and prototypes yet are still 2 or 5yrs as in the article away from commercial use. If its beyond theoretical then what takes do long, should be scaled up and ready to ship in a couple months.

Idea itself sounds good but not holding my breath.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Chuck, if you want to discuss subsidies, maybe you can respond to me in the other thread, where you repeated the completely bogus $60 billion without reading the article,(as always) to learn that they are calling infrastructure and health care as subsidies. Which may be true, since we probably wouldn't need either if not for modern society which is powered by fossil fuels.

[woodland]

I never understand how these companies seem to have a concept, knowledge and prototypes yet are still 2 or 5yrs as in the article away from commercial use. If its beyond theoretical then what takes do long, should be scaled up and ready to ship in a couple months.

Idea itself sounds good but not holding my breath.

My phone battery is running low ............ I’ve gotta get my perpetual motion machine hooked up to the generator and then I can continue. It seems to be slowing down for some reason............ but it worked perfectly in my head and on paper.

Beep beep!
Powering down...............



P.S. I’m skeptical too😉

[AlbertaFarmer5]

My persepective on this, and the reason why I follow any and all alternative energy stories, is that one of these is eventually going to be the real thing. The prize is so big, and there are so many working on the next big thing, that eventually, it will happen, maybe not this one, maybe not anything we can even currently imagine, but it will happen, I have a lot of faith in human ingenuity. We won't all be cold and starving in the dark under Chuck's utopian vision of turning the calendar back a few centuries, we will innovate our way into the next practical solution.
And when it comes, it will upend everything about civilization. From a farmers perspective, an unlimited, nearly free energy source will have huge impacts. Likely the end of ethanol immediately. The ability to grow food nearly anywhere if it is cheap to desalinate water and irrigate desserts, or heat greenhouses in arctic climates, or move mountains, and reroute rivers, or pump water across continents to irrigate. Distance to markets may no longer matter. Energy intensive, and transportation intensive inputs like N fertilizers will be cheaper, for every everywhere. But on the other side, if we manage it right, it could result in much lower costs of living, much more free time, and we may just use that to have more kids, meaning more mouths to feed eventually, and more people around the world who can afford to eat what we produce.

In the meantime, we probably should be trying to make the most of our current resources while they are in demand. Not sure I would invest in low density intermittent energy production if the payback is measured in decades as of today, might never get payback if something like this disrupts the system.
Would our current fleet of equipment become worthless overnight, or would we find a way to retrofit everything?

I can't imagine a paradigm shift in history that would be as disruptive as this would be, if it is true. Humans to animal labour, animal to steam, wood to coal, coal to diesel and gasoline, etc. These were all incremental improvements that took decades to occur. This would happen overnight, since there would be no way to compete with free energy if you are still paying for energy.

I see unlimited possibilities for humans if we are liberated from our energy limited existence, I'm sure Chuck and the rest of the doomsdayers see this as a terrible thing.