Renewable Energy Tech.

Where's the articles on those, what did you search?

Sounds like something I tried working on in a chem class once, Semiconductor Perfection with Gallim-Indium Nitride, smiconductors to step down the octaveof the energy into electrical terms, directly. Didn't finish the experiment, but the research looked good.
To transfer enough energy into a harmonic magnetism would require a crystalline substance that resonates naturally with the lower octave frequencies of light itself, receptive to the lower harmonic frequencies of common yellow of sunlight, making it magnetic and therefore translatable into electricity. I assume from the Ga-In N2 would come the simplification of the storage theory, which I hope has to do with a safe battery, but that's utterly conjecture at this point, plotting possibility ahead to something testable, based on variety of theories with apparent ends that meet.


As far as LFTRs, which one is closer to implementation? LFTR or this saline electricity storage?

 

If you live in Oklahoma you don't want to use solar or wind energy if you're still attached to the grid.
They passed a law that will charge anyone using alternate energy sources a 'solar surcharge'.
Must be fun to live in a state that is so red that it's laws are written by the Koch brothers.

Oklahoma Utilities Hit Homes Using Solar With Extra Fee - weather.com

 

The solar thermal plant with molten salt storage is running and producing power right now.

 

Liquid fluoride thorium reactor - Appropedia: The sustainability wiki
Maybe I need to reassess my view of LFTRs. In the past, this says that the pipes they used became brittle and cracked/leaked hot somewhat radioactive salt. But, they think they can create better pipes by creating an alloy with some other metals.

There have been some tests like the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment. And Norway and doing a Thorium reactor test. I think it has potential. At least until we finally throw everything we have at getting the ITER and other fusion plants up and running.

 

I hope this isn't too good to be true, because it seems pretty damned cool.

 

It would be much more effective (and less orange cones) to mount a wall of them on the south side of the highway.

Also keep in mind, that it takes around 80 of the standard panels to power one electric car when in motion at highways speeds. (215W * 80 = 17.2 kW ... 17.2 kW/250 Whr per mile = 68.8 mph) Now the cars aren't always moving, so I have fewer than 80 panels and still can generate enough power to drive an electric vehicle. But, roof space is much easier to come by than road surfaces and don't have to deal with the abuse they see.

*They do have more powerful, higher wattage panels now, and 250 would equal a vehicle weight of around 2500 lbs, which is still heavier than cars and trucks should weigh, but is light compared to what they are. The EV1 got 160-175 Whr per mile for instance, and with the older battery tech. Increasing range by adding more batteries would probably be more important than reducing the amount of power it takes to go one mile though.

 

Correct, ASU2003, because the moderators were only made using technology they had at the time (1940s-50s) If I remember right they were moderated with carbon graphite tubes, which they kept having to patch up and replace because the salt would just wash it away. The current MSR projects are mostly focusing on perfecting the alloys used to moderate the neutron flow so this doesn't happen. Except for scale-ability and salt-indifferent pipe alloys, all of the requisite technologies have been tested and proven, and recently retested in china and a few labs in the US, to reaffirm that it works like it's purported to..

 

Oklahoma is not a good place to live when it comes to using renewable sources of energy..

 

Oddly the laws in Oklahoma are the easiest to ignore for federal or international, but that's a different story for a much different post, because I seriously doubt anyone doing renewable energy is also well-read in law.