Comments by "Robert Morgan" (@RobertMorgan) on "Vox" channel.

  1. Yay, 18th century technology keeping innovation stagnant. Breeder reactor nuclear would make solar and fossil fuels not only obsolete, but far too expensive to even be considered. We could have so much electricity it would cost more to charge for it than not. Post-Scarcity is possible, and we perfected the tech for it in the 1980s. Too bad Big Coal and Big Environmental are suppressing it.
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  2. Ancient technology passed off as new. Chemical batteries are obsolete. When is Tesla going to invent something new to THIS century?
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  3. Ah yes, another 19th century idea, batteries, to solve the shortcoming of a 20th century problem, solar. We need to move past these centuries old ideas and get to breeder reactor nuclear, the current-gen. They burn old nuclear waste, solving that issue. They cannot even be forced to melt down, solving that issue. They could make electricity so abundant that fantasies like all cars being electric would finally be feasible. We'd have enough abundant and affordable power for the first time in human history to desalinate water on a globally-industrial scale, and all water crises are solved. This is 1990s technology being suppressed by ecoterrorists, greenies, Evoto rentals type people stuck in the past, coal companies, and the uninformed. Join the future. Get out of the distant past.
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  4. Lots of investment in a technology hundreds of years old, yet suspiciously we've repressed breeder reactors perfected in the 1980s that could cleanly power us for millenia, use current nuclear waste from old-tech plants as fuel, and produce power in such abundance that solar/gas/gasoline/coal/wind would all be FAR too expensive to compete. We could have a post-scarcity energy system. Too bad it's opposed by so many vested interests in Big Solar and Big Coal, not to mention the ecoterrorists/NIMBYS
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  5. "The only way to get real world data, is to do real world installation." Which is why we should be building breeder reactor nuclear plants. We've already spent tens of billions of taxpayer money years ago to perfect the technology. It works quite amazingly, and was then shelved. There literally is no other future of energy than nuclear, fission or fusion. We'll always be stuck in the past as a less-than-type 1 civilization on the path of solar and wind and happy thoughts.
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  6. Yep, keep up those 19th century ideas and call it innovation.
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  7. Get off last centuries ideas like solar and wind, and actually go to a modern technology, breeder reactor nuclear, that's not 70, or 100, or 500 years old, which old-tech nuclear, wind/solar, and batteries are respectively. NO TECHNOLOGY other than nuclear, fission or fusion, even comes close to starting to meet the power demand of the next century. Solar would be a challenge today, much less when the population is 14 billion of us and the population of first-world developed countries is 10x what it is today. If you're thinking about today or even 20 years from now, you're a century behind.
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  8. Have you looked into how one solar flare could probably destroy it? If it's not EMP/Flare hardened, it needs to be, and I'd bet that makes the cost unfeasible. But, without that protection in place, it's far too vulnerable to be depended upon in any way. As 'new technology', despite batteries being a centuries-old tech, it should address these problems of today if it is innovative.
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  9. How well do all these solar/battery systems stand up to EMP or Carringtin Event-level solar flares? If they're not already hardened against that threat, they have to be, and I'm sure that would drive the costs up astonishingly. It has to be done, you cannot have the entire system vulnerable to a single-hit complete takedown. Address this baseline concern before you even think about enhanced capabilities.
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  10. Speaking of one side of the equation, discuss lithium mining, the nickel contamination of making these batteries, the millions sickened and killed where these batteries and solar panels are made each year, and how we get past that and say screw those people like you seem to want to. Lots of calculus to consider here.
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  11. Batteries, solar, wind, all 19th and 20th century novelty inventions. Move past that, actually INNOVATE. Breeder reactor nuclear would work, and actually make us 100% nationwide emissions free. Big Coal and Big Solar working together with Big Ecoterrorist keep that from happening. Enjoy watching your battery explode and contaminating the landscape when a solar flare fries it. Old-tech...
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  12. That batteries are an ancient and heavily polluting technology, and that staying trapped in that thinking paradigm is actually looking back rather than innovating forward. That's a point to consider.
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  13. Powerwall, welcome to the 20th century. Batteries are ancient technology. Zero innovation in even the most advanced battery. An entirely new concept and technology are required. Apple actually had a great idea when they teased the hydrogen fuel cell powered iPhone years back. Radiothermogrpahic Generators, using radioisotopes to generate heat that a thermocouple than generates electricity from in high intensity/high stability output is actual future tech, and it's innovative enough the Mars Curiosity rover picked it over all competing ideas. That's a sealed, zero maintenance nuclear battery that will output at the same rate for 10 years easily. THIS needs to be where we go, not old batteries using materials from hundreds of years ago. We've been in the nuclear age for almost a CENTURY, yet we suppress limitless, cheap power for the solutions of novelty in the 1800s-1900s, solar, windmills, chemical batteries. Come on.
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  14. 19th century technology, solar, is the problem that needs to be solved. Current-gen breeder reactors, that cannot meltdown even intentionally and run on the waste left behind by old-gen nuclear plants need to be our next step. Widely deployed, solar and wind would be obsolete and far too expensive next to breeder reactors, and we could actually go 100% emissions-free, 100% fossil-fuel free. We could have electricity so abundant, on demand, as to be basically post-scarcity. We'd have the power necessary, and finally affordable, to desalinate water on a globally-industrial scale and solve all water crises for the next several centuries. All this is being prevented by ecoterrorists that want to keep us on coal power and polluting-production solar technologies that are last centuries ideas.
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  15. Batteries are an ancient solution, and in all honesty far more polluting than most fossil fuels. Think AHEAD, not backward.
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  16. 20th century idea. Get at least into the 2010s. We need new thinking.
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