RE: LeoThread 2025-09-15 18:20
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Talking about new technologies, have you seen this electrical power plant in a 40 foot shipping container.
- All self contained
- No batteries
- No grid connection needed
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Pretty cool! Back at university, I specialized in alternative energy sources and my final project was on the underlying technology that they are showing on that video
Really? That's very cool. So what do you think, does this thing have some real potential? It sounds good to me.
I kind of live that stuff... you think it would be possible to make a smaller unit that would power a home or two?
Oh yea it has a lot of potential
In fact there are some plants that use similar (but not identical) technology being built already. I'll try to find the link I was checking out hte ohter day
As to whether its possible to make it small enough to power a house, I dont know...
Back when I was doing my research, it was only financially viable for higher output because the initial investment was quite large
But who knows... that was years ago and technology tends to make things cheaper over time so I wouldnt rule that out in the future
oh great, I wpuld live those links when you find them. Thanks. And the cost of it makes sense now that you've said that.
Maybe gotta do a DIY kind of thing 🤔
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I can remember a TED from oh boy ... like more than 15 years ago, MIT prof sketching that thing out.
Super!
I would think it has real potentially as long as the powers that be let it happen... it takes up less space than solar panels. There doesn't seem to be anything bad about it either, in terms of the environment and the materials it uses.
I wish them luck!
And hopefully it is scalable in a downsizing kind of way. I'd love one of these for my off-grid homestead!!!
Yeah I think advertised big use case "DATA center" is wrong. That concept is fitting for smaller applications, you can go more modular and decentralized.
For not sure, a farm or some production facility seems more fitting.
Totally - instead of setting up copper powerline somewhere, "just" equip each house or block or whatever with one those containers.
This kind of application would work wonders for a farm or a homestead! Now you can live wherever you want on the planet as long as there's enough sun!
And rain or something sort of water source 🤔
As for the Data centers... it is the big ticket item. If they get a contract with X ai for example, that's a lot of units sold!
Plus it would help the power gid problem we're facing with all this ai everywhere 🙄
Yeah, just saying more and bigger planning would be more efficient, the modularity takes too much from the overall efficiency.
But just guessing, if market can't deliver you a solution, you have to huddle the options available.
Moar and smaller data center are might be more feasible with the units.
I see what you're saying. Tho making something modular gives both the producer and the consumer more options.
I don't really know.... and you're probably right about it taking too much away from the overall efficiency. It certainly takes a toll!
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