Comments on: Interview with Pinchas Doron at AORA Solar

By: Omharisai

Omharisai — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:36:00 +0000

Can this method be used to heat a closed loop system containing a liquid including water,oil (even used cooking oil perhaps) or liquified sodium as a heat transfer medium to generate power via conventional means? Does this system have a reliable heat reservoir to store excess heat perhaps in an underground cavern to be used during cloudy days or at night? At 1000 degrees celsius, water heated by DIAPR would turn into superheated steam.Could it not be sent through insulated underground pipes to electric power stations at a distance? The hot waste water could also heat homes,hotels and be used for cleaning and washing. I liked the Israeli expression about ‘shaving on somebody else’s beard’.

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:32:00 +0000

But, you have to realize that not making fossil fuels internalize their societal costs is a subsidy. So, that needs to be corrected somehow.

By: Dennis Spain

Dennis Spain — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:51:00 +0000

Reduce the size of government drastically, remove all subsidies to ANY energy company (or any company of whatever type, for that matter), reduce taxes in general, and let the FED compete with alternative currencies so we can stop the insane privilege that banks have of creating our money out of our debt…

Please supply details of your company. Sounds amazing.

By: Glenn Meyers

Glenn Meyers — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:55:00 +0000

Stan – I’m anxious to hear more – Glenn

By: Stan

Stan — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 11:44:00 +0000

As a scientist in the renewable sector as well, I can truthfully tell you there may not be a snowball’s chance in h.ll for this….the reason being, that virtually every incentive program in the past and present has failed other than the 30% federal tax credit. With a government that going broke, and a tax credit program that’s going to expire in 2016 (that’s 5 years folks) and no one is going to build this @ “retail” so…well, I think even those of you who aren’t physicists can do the math.
My company is going thru invention h.ll, because we are developing a scalable powerplant that easily produces 20MW and can be sized to do 50MW. Since it doesn’t depend on sun, wind or water, one placed about every 10 miles in heavily populated areas and every 50 to 100 miles in the sparsely populated areas….picture 10 to 25 wind generators every 10 miles….(5MW windmills have an average annual output of 1.8MW) That, folks, gives us the ability to have dedicated “strips” across the country for a maglev transportation system like japan has, except the are self powered, not sucking power out of the grid. Hey, 400mph ain’t too bad…an airliner only goes 550mph.
Best of all, it uses all existing technology, and can be built for less money than the corresponding power amount of wind and solar. They are only 300ft across, and 400 ft. in ht. (about 30 stories, and 1/2 the diameter of a sports stadium).
But this isn’t a perfect world…….