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Hi Everyone,

I'm Tristan - wannabe scientist but mostly futurist idealist, atheist conservative anti-capitalist - (so confused then .

I'm very passionate about science and technology - I work in the energy industry currently building solar fars in the UK for Sun Spirit Ltd via their company UK Solar Assets Limited.

I strongly believe that with cheaper energy more people could be lifted out of poverty and could then start to add value to the world community. Thats why I work in Energy - I'm aware that I am currently funded through the corporate dogs (wolves) of capitalism which is not generally kind to the needs of the poor - but we all have to start somewhere so dont judge me too harshly.

I am also a big believer in the importance of a move to space - not only to supply our growing energy needs but also for the protection of the human race from uncontrollable events which will inevitably befall the community on a global scale and from which we should rightly protect ourselves by spreading into space when we can.

One of the reasons for my passion in energy is a recognition of the fact that when viable mass space transit engines are eventually created they will be very energy hungry - and so these are my jey areas of interest.

1. Energy Generation.
2. Energy Storage.
3. Energy Transmission.

I think in order to achieve a continuous and effective development of these technologies it is necessary for the scientific community to generate and agree on a set of goals towards which the community can work that include basic parameters, such as;

• What is the densest form of energy storage and can it be manipulated with viable technology?
  
  • Lithium Ion is all well and good but it's very 12st century - not very forward thinking really.
  • Similarly magnetic superconductors will improve energy efficiency - but thats all.
  • Super capacitors offer a lot of hope but I'm not sure we are really looking at that from the correct perspective at the moment - I wonder what impedance you could achieve across a fold of space-time for example? And how small could the containment for that 'fold' be?
• What do we USE energy for? is it not mostly for the transit of materials?
  
  • If it is then surely the manipulation of materials on an atomic level would dramatically reduce the requirement for the transit of materials. (our biggest energy use).
  • How far could this be taken? Did Tesla accomplish anything real with the Eldridge? He was not one for showmanship - unlike Edison.
• Alternatively - is it more viable to channel energy to one central unit which then manipulates space-time to get things where we want them? (I'm speaking from a purely math point of view - ignoring the current realities of course).
  
  • We buy energy - but thats not what we need - we need one thing moved from here to there.
  • Is it posible that in the future (as with data, computing and 'the cloud') we will one-day have a transit contract with EDF rather than an electricity contract?
  • In the UK T-Mobile and Orange have joined forces to offer Everything Everywhere... perhaps the ITER project will join with CERN to offer us Anything Anywhere!?

Well thats quite enough of my babble -

here's to a better future for people everywhere.

Tristan

Interesting stuff and a noble cause - good on you! Welcome!

Conservative anti-capitalist?

Here's to a greener more ecologically friendly future.