Energy from Neutrinos!!!

[5065AGuru]

Check this out! Sounds great but the physics does not work out!

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/a-global-call-to-embrace-free-neutrino-energy-300934100.html

Cheers

[filssavi]

Yea sounds great, too bad that physics doesn’t work that way...

Neutrinos are incredibly elusive and do not react with basically anything (like multiple hundreds of kilometres of rock between gran sasso national laboratory in Italy and CERN at Geneva, so how are they supposed to power anything with them is quite a mistery

[hamster_nz]

Quick calculation... Neutrino flux at surface is 1x10`11, average energy seems to be about 5MeV.

Quck conversion that if you were able to catch them all, I thin that is way less than 1W per m^2.

[daqq]

Sounds great! All we need now is a way to capture them. I can't wait integrate a hyperdense mass into my car to get that sweet, sweet extra 5 Watts. It might get a tad weird, finding a parking space able to hold the mass equivalent of Jupiter, but hey, free stuff, right?

I skimmed through the page a bit, they only mention that it'll be awesome, but I haven't seen anything even hinting at a practical design that could harness neutrinos. Did I miss something?

[magic]

What about global warming? For now all that energy just passes through and leaves at the other side.

[Cyberdragon]

 

Someone find a clip from He-Man of the neutrino powered car.

[Buriedcode]

It's marketting leading the way.  The actual "science" and engineering can be done later, with some "boffins" and some hand waving, the important part first is getting customers for investment, because of course, all problems can be solved with money, thinking really hard, and technology.

It's a common formula used many times - including Ubeam, with the difference that, Ubeam isn't complete pseudoscience, its just impractical.

[magic]

You just described the entire "startup" culture, with rare exceptions

Don't forget that all the skeptics are just losers who have never built any revolutionary technlogy themselves and are envious

[Doom-the-Squirrel]

 


I want off this planet....


I wonder what they do whenever neutrinos arrive from a supernova.

[Stray Electron]

Sounds great! All we need now is a way to capture them. I can't wait integrate a hyperdense mass into my car to get that sweet, sweet extra 5 Watts. It might get a tad weird, finding a parking space able to hold the mass equivalent of Jupiter, but hey, free stuff, right?

I skimmed through the page a bit, they only mention that it'll be awesome, but I haven't seen anything even hinting at a practical design that could harness neutrinos. Did I miss something?

   Not that I can tell.  The article was a lot of rhetoric about the current state of world energy but not one word about how they plan to capture "neutrino energy".

[Doom-the-Squirrel]

They'll figure it out in a firmware update...