Cold Fusion company hires 20 engineers. Posts third party review of their Hyperion reactor.

iwantedthisusername · 13 days

if the scientists at MIT were worth anything this device would be patented and published in Science or Nature. Until then there are just rumors of cold fusion, no credible support for their claims have been given.

iwantedthisusername · 13 days

Lots of resources, and all the credible ones aren't buying into it. Talk to me again when you can point at their paper in Science or Nature. Until then I will believe they are a scam.

pomyao · 15 days

I am sure the site e-catworld.com will be honest and unbiased.

Can we stop supporting the scams yet?

futurepaul · 23 days

I spent a month doing my best to cut myself off from any form of communication which did not exist five thousand years ago. Obviously this is impossible since it is not like you can just choose to not read street signs. Also I was a student at the time and was not about to let myself fail out, so I made an exception for school assignments.

Still, for more than a month I managed to almost completely shut myself off from TV, the internet, radio, non-live music, video games, books, and newspapers.

The advantage of doing this is you find the number of things you can do is so limited you almost can't help but be productive. All of a sudden my house was spotless and my grades were good. I also found it much easier to work out so I got to be in better shape.

I also realized how hard it is to be an introvert without technology. After a few hours sitting alone without entertainment it is amazing how much more happy you are to see people.

On the minus side, I quickly just couldn't relate to most modern Americans. It is amazing how much our interactions depend on discussing the newest video game, movie, or newspaper article. Eventually being around all that just sucked me back in.

wergerver · 27 days

Buy low, sell high. Gold is at historic highs, so the odds of it dropping in price exceed the odds of it getting more expensive.

TheGreenMiles · 1 month

Mostly the cost of those rare elements is the labor which goes into mining them. It is not like we hand dollar bills to rocks and they magically turn into metal. That money pays the salaries of people doing the mining or managing, and financing of projects. So it is still a problem of green energy needing too much labor.

Notemy · 1 month

Hippy definitions of energy are unlikely to ever take over this subreddit. However if you find interesting articles on the physics of energy it just might catch on.

The problem is those articles are few and far between. Most that do exist are behind pay walls or not interesting to very many people.

TheGreenMiles · 1 month

While that is true, it would still not close the gap on a measure of labor per unit of energy produced basis. The fact of the matter is that coal is cheaper because it employs less people. This cheaper energy then creates far more jobs in energy intensive industries than are lost in power generation.

Only when renewable energy creates as few jobs as coal will it be competative with coal.

JoFerg · 1 month

Ham radio is about the most likely to survive a really bad situation. In many disasters they have managed to keep sending out information when few others could.

Many members of the community are real masters of electronics and already have solar cells or windmills which could power their equipment. So I expect them to be still going as long as anything resembling civilization exists anywhere.

permanomad · 1 month

Whatever you don't buy gold or other metals. Gold isn't an investment, it is speculation. A real investment has a chance of turning into something else. For example if you invest money in a restaurant, and that restaurant does really well the money it produces can buy another restaurant. A pound of gold on the other hand will always be a pound of gold, nothing more. All you are doing is making a bet that the future buying power of that price of gold is greater than today.

Why is that a bad bet? Well, for one the price of gold has crashed before. If you don't believe me, take a look as a fifty year graph of gold prices and think about how many people must have lost a fortune during those crashes. More importantly the price of gold is as high as it has ever been. Regression toward the mean suggests that whenever the price of anything is as high as it has ever been, it is likely to fall.

Beyond that, gold has high transaction costs. Whenever you sell gold, you must prove that it actually is what you say it is. That high transaction cost will eat a lot of your gains even if it does go up.

As to what is the best investment? If I knew that I wouldn't be wasting time on reddit, I would be making myself rich.

glmory · 1 month

Not certain at all. Throughout history many have predicted collapse. Most of the time they were wrong. Every so often they are right though and major famines, plagues or wars put an end to a civilization.

With the amount people are dependant on each other these days the possibility for a really bad crash are unusually high right now. In a hundred years people could easily be living in the stone age. Alternatively technology is far ahead of anything that has ever existed, in a hundred years we could be all over the solar system.

wainstead · 1 month

Because we like having the problem of too much natural gas?

AyeMatey · 1 month

This sounds like a really good idea. Anyone know if ski lifts can move rocks with similar efficiency to water pumps?

imburton · 1 month

Some permanent magnet motors, such as those in treadmills, can easily be repurposed to make a generator. This is the cheap and easy solution as you can probably find a used one.

Alternatively you could build yourself a pancake generator. If you choose to do that, I highly encourage reading this page on a hand-crank generator. The advantage of this method is you learn a lot about generators. It will not be easy to build one as good as you can buy used though.

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