Yep these underwater turbines can be a very good way to make and supply energy.
But in my opinion scientists already done their job and like you wrote we evolved from coal to nuclear energy.
All of these are fine and dandy but we still lack something.
But for this lets go to the basics:
- We can create energy , termic, electric (all the ways that we already know) even nuclear.
BUT
We canot store it...just release it (sexual pun intended). So that means that we can create beautifull bombs. rockets and so on and on...
You can argue here and say: We can store it...
Nope ...we canot...
Example: We release nuclear energy ...like this : BOOM
First noticeable effect is that we wiped some continent.Second effect is the radiation witch is more deadly.
How to store this?
If anyone knew the aswer for this question it would be a more superb world.
We can try to store energy in batteries and there are so many types .
One of the best are lithium batteries that last very long time.
But even those canot store nuclear energy.
S.Hawking is thinking on another type of energy and those are the black holes.
In his book he wrotes that when a star is dying it begins to collapse on itself and this process creates a vacuum that sucks (pardon the expresion) everything from matter to time itself.
So this man Hawking calculated this but my question and I think that is his as well is: - WHAT IS INSIDE A BLACK HOLE?
As I see it inside is a place of storage ...and storage is what we need.
Well at least this is what I am thinking ...because I see that we as a race we already have so many different types of energy but we don't have a place to store it. I dunno when we will find the answer to this ...but if we do just imagine @alexbeyman a battery that can suplly one city for 10 years that can fit inside your pocket.
No need to store the energy created from a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor. Like fire wood store the Thorium (a sphere the size of a golf ball will provide all of the energy need by a wasteful person for a lifetime. It doesn't take up much space and it's totally safe. Safer than firewood since it doesn't attract termites.
Note: nuclear power reactors can NOT explode. They can only meltdown. LIFTRs are impossible to meltdown.
I now that technically reactors cannot explode (only maybe if a trigger happy person who comes with some c4 and a deathwish).
Thorium or Th-232 is a very good example that you gave , it can be found in nature more even than uranium.
An last I agree again on the matter of size as well "the size of a golf ball "
"future needs" as well.
I gave the example the Stephen Hawking study opon: The black holes.
Now they generate HUGE quantities of energy so much that it will me more than we ever need.(and here you can add all the humans, the planet itself)
That type of fuel can be used for space travel.
In my opinion it is time for us to reach light speed already...
Just this month scientists "found out" that there is another planet at a distance of 1.5 light years form us and they name it Earth 2.0.
We already have power (dangeorus and deadly) now our next step is to implement it and evolve, search new things, never stopping.
Thanks @everittdmickey for a kind repply and information as well. In my repply to @alexbeyman I was taking not only our planet but our That's why I mentioned this type of energy because when I read top to bottom what @alexbeyman wrote I started to remember and see things in a positive way. Thank you again for a kind repply @everittdmickey !
"there is another planet at a distance of 1.5 light years from us and they name it Earth 2.0."
Really? Odd that. The nearest star to our sun is Alpha Centauri...it's about four light years away. Did earth 2 lose it's star? Is it out wandering alone by itself? Seems a bit chilly.
Kepler 452b (I dunno why scientists have such a fixation on code names) after that the name it Earth 2.0(It is confusing I know)
They (NASA) said that the Planet is six billion years old and has a 385 day year and orbits its star at the same distance as us.
And that it is 1.4(OK I wrote 1.5 because I wrote from what I remembered) light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.
I agree on your sentence :
I noticed too that NASA "just found out about another planets" ( I mean come on..really?)...that Uranus (pardon my french) is not a planet anymore and is something else...
In my opinon this scientists just waste time by labeling planets....meanwhile...they lie about what is out there....and believe me that there are plenty things out there .
I dont have the propper equipment to observe the stars or I am not a great mathematician to calculate the exact distance of the star (or star position)
So as a normal person I look for news and yes maybe somethimes I believe what these guys from NASA said in the papers .Yes @everittdmickey the original name of the Planet is
" Uranus (pardon my french) is not a planet anymore and is something else..."
Uranus is a gas giant. There is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. All gas giants. Jupiter is such a LARGE gas giant that some callit a 'failed' brown dwarf (a type of star)...
Perhaps you are thinking of pluto
I'd be hesitant to say that Astronomers are lying. They have data to support their hypothesis. Do you have contradictory data?