I guess my question would be how much would it cost to make a battery given
the price and availability of the materials or components ?
I guess my fear would be, if it was cheap and easy to do what would stop some
nutcase from putting together a huge bank of these things to power some kind
of weapon for free. Like a high power microwave emitter ?
I guess my skeptical side says that if it was made public and allowed for
manufacture and public use the people who control the raw materials would
most likely follow the supply and demand model (being mining companies) and
the
price of one or two of the raw materials like thorium would go through the roof
and be very heavily regulated by the very same or similar people that fix the
prices of fuel and energy now.
The problem is, the system that allowed this and other similar things to
happen is corrupt, it won't do any good to complain to one part of the system
about another part of the same system.
When we think about it if we don't want the government to regulate what is
dangerous to have then we all should be able to have anything we want if we
can get it or build it, anything from Battle tanks to nuclear reactors to free energy.
When is regulation too much, and when is it too little ? And who gets to decide that ?
What one person sees as a very real and dangerous prospect another person
might see as safe simply because they haven't considered all the angles.
"Yet".
Cheers
the price and availability of the materials or components ?
I guess my fear would be, if it was cheap and easy to do what would stop some
nutcase from putting together a huge bank of these things to power some kind
of weapon for free. Like a high power microwave emitter ?
I guess my skeptical side says that if it was made public and allowed for
manufacture and public use the people who control the raw materials would
most likely follow the supply and demand model (being mining companies) and
the
price of one or two of the raw materials like thorium would go through the roof
and be very heavily regulated by the very same or similar people that fix the
prices of fuel and energy now.
The problem is, the system that allowed this and other similar things to
happen is corrupt, it won't do any good to complain to one part of the system
about another part of the same system.
When we think about it if we don't want the government to regulate what is
dangerous to have then we all should be able to have anything we want if we
can get it or build it, anything from Battle tanks to nuclear reactors to free energy.
When is regulation too much, and when is it too little ? And who gets to decide that ?
What one person sees as a very real and dangerous prospect another person
might see as safe simply because they haven't considered all the angles.
"Yet".
Cheers
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