08-19-2011, 09:15 PM
(08-19-2011, 07:41 PM)kandrathe Wrote: I think what you are after is a way for machines to metabolize and use energy, and it really doesn't matter what form that energy takes.
I think you are imagining just more complicated versions of that simple closed loop model of energy capture, and energy consumption.
Yes on the first part, and on the second part, there is a very good chance you are correct. And as Hammerskjold pointed out in his latest post, the payoff would not be worth the benefit, at least not until this type of machine was so commonplace that it was dirt cheap to produce. And once we got there, who knows, but that won't happen in our lifetimes.
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