Nuclear Batteries

So what is the next big thing after the Internet? That question still remains my top one since I formulated it in June 2008 at the Intel Capital CEO conference. It was just a week after the impressive presentation by Chris Cooper at 2008 Telecosm Conference. Still being a little jet lagged, I was immediately awaken by the vision of nano confinement fusion.

Today, while the nano - scale fusion nuclear batteries are not ready, and will not be ready for some years to come, we may soon be getting an intermediate solution - the mini - scale fission reactors. They are just moving into a mass production. According to The Cutting Edge:

...nuclear battery technology pioneered by government scientists at Los Alamos—the facility that developed the first atomic bomb—has been licensed to private companies for mass production and distribution... in its initial format, each micro-reactor will produce just 25 megawatts, but enough to provide electricity for 20,000 average American-sized homes or a major industrial project...

...factory-sealed in concrete, and delivered by truck, train or ship... the reactors will produce heat which will boil an adjacent water source to create the steam that typically turns turbines that generate electricity...

Just try to imagine the consequences. Inexpensive, autonomous power... Even if it still requires wires to distribute around towns and communities, being smoke free, not needing a train of coal every day or two and not forcing us to conserve it in any manner, The Botomless Well of energy will soon be available to most of us.

PS>FAC: thanks for sharing the original article