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> So in 10 years will everyone have one? > “I’d say yes. Ten years from today the probability that you are depending on wires hanging on tree branches is as lik
by chris_va 12y ago
> So in 10 years will everyone have one?
> “I’d say yes. Ten years from today the probability that you are depending on wires hanging on tree branches is as likely as that you’ll still be installing land lines for telephones. Close to zero.”
Well this seems out of touch with reality. This is how I read it: "Why maintain 1 power plant when you can instead ship and maintain 100000 instead?"
- tsotha 12y agoRemember, this is the same guy that was telling us the Segway would revolutionize travel.
- johnpowell 12y agoI remember when Kamen was going on all the morning shows saying that he was going to change the world and transportation. Many speculated that it was a Sterling Engine. It was the Segway.
- tsotha 12y agoBut the Sterling engine is 200 years old. It's hard to imagine he's going to be able to do something spectacular with it.
- vidarh 12y agoEspecially given as having access to a home natural gas supply is not a given. I didn't even know that was a thing until I moved to the UK.
- bryanlarsen 12y agoA Stirling engine just requires a heat source of some kind. Unless you don't cook your food, you have access to fuel of some kind.
- bryanlarsen 12y agoConsidering that most Americans already have two power plants sitting mostly unused in their garage, maintenance personnel should not be hard to find.