RE: The End Of Fossil Fuels.
November 16, 2019 at 5:17 am
(This post was last modified: November 16, 2019 at 5:18 am by Alex K.)
(November 16, 2019 at 5:07 am)ignoramus Wrote: More importantly Alex, and aside from a practicality perspective, what cost is involved in harnessing these particles.
eg: cheaper than a 1.2m x 1.2m solar panel (assuming 80% at best efficiency)?
That's difficult to say. We don't know the properties of dark matter particles, we only have model hypotheses. For the usual ones (e.g. weakly interacting massive particles (wimps) or Axions) there is currently no tech to harvest them (otherwise we'd have discovered them) but I can speculate. For wimps, one could imagine a stream of high energy particles which would force them to undergo weak interactions. All unimaginably expensive and inefficient. I would figure a 1x1 m prototype to involve a wakefield particle accelerator which costs millions and needs a few megawatts to operate 🤣
But who knows, maybe I am missing something ingenious
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
