Tag: Energy
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Seven reactor designs, one reaction. The hydrogen industry the petrochemical majors are quietly building doesn’t need water, and its byproduct is tire filler.
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Kurzweil bet the 2020s and 2030s would run on nanoengineered fuel cells. The 2024 book quietly dropped them. Solar, batteries, and power electronics took the decentralization story instead.
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Solar arrived ahead of Kurzweil’s schedule. The microscopic fuel cells he paired with it died in a Boston warehouse in 2013.
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Two patents, one mile of rock, and a Berkeley father-daughter team plan to take a nuclear reactor critical inside a Kansas industrial park on July 4.
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Kurzweil bet on hydrogen cars, microbial cells, and sonofusion in 2005. Silicon photovoltaics quietly won everything.
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Kurzweil bet on methanol laptops and coal with sequestration; lithium-ion won, FutureGen died, and the distributed fuel cell is booming — just inside AI data centers.
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Solar got cheaper than Kurzweil dared predict. Then AI broke the demand-side story.
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In 2024, the USPTO granted 21 patents for materials engineered to radiate heat through Earth’s atmosphere and into the vacuum of space. The technique requires zero electricity. The trick that made it work came from telecom.