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on Monday November 02 2015, @09:26PM
from the fusion-is-still-only-10-years-away dept.
from the fusion-is-still-only-10-years-away dept.
From Yahoo Finance:
Germany is about to start up a monster machine that could revolutionize the way we use energy.
For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion.And they're still dreaming.
But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change.
Last year, after 1.1 million construction hours, the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator.
The machine, which has a diameter of 52 feet, is called the W7-X.
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Check out this awesome time-lapse video of the construction of W7-X on Youtube.
Additional information can be found at this referenced article from Science .
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @03:30PM
I don't think it's paid FUD. Lots of people sincerely believe that. I had solar panels put up recently, not even enough to fully cover my south-facing roof, and I'm generating more energy than I use in a year. One of my neighbors - same size house, built at the same time - talked to me about it. I found out their electricity bill was more than _double_ what mine had been before the solar panels. I haven't been able to figure out how they managed to get it that high (without grow-lamps, anyway). But it seems fairly common for people to have huge electricity bills, even in fairly modern houses, so the GP might be one of them.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Wednesday November 04 2015, @04:12AM
When I lived alone in Miami, during non AC months the power company charged me less for usage than their "customer charge" and other fixed fees - my total bill was running under $20 per month. Add a wife and two kids, double the size of the house, and now we're lucky to see the bill under $200 per month. More hot water, more people in and out of the refrigerator, and more months with the AC on 24/7.
AC is the big one, if you're trying to keep a house at 72 degrees in Florida, you're going to have some pretty impressive bills in the summer. We shoot for 76, and still see over $350 some months.
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