This is premature as far as we are concerned, but perhaps in the future, you will be able to include ecological means of energy conversions in the Gaïa project, and why not ours.
The PHRSD has great potential. But more generally, thermodynamic solar energy must be part of a renewable mix. Do you know
DESERTEC? They have an agricultural component (desalination of sea water in particular) in their project.
Although very large personalities support DESERTEC and that excellent German scientists have validated the feasibility of the project, it must be admitted that unfortunately it remains conceptual for the moment.
I paradoxically believe that the world is not ready for all this ...
Do you know where the billions go in France? Look, it's all hot:
1. particle physics and high energies (we know why: civil and military nuclear energy)
2. Some telescopes and radio telescopes, of which frankly, I do not care given the vital emergencies which are currently imposed on Humanity.
At the end of the document, you will count among the "TGIR" (very large research infrastructures) of this document the dozens of particle accelerators, high power laser, ITER, JET, Mégajoule, LULI, colliders and others. lasers, some of which prepare post fusion weapons based on matter / antimatter annihilation. etc ...
https://www.econologie.info/share/partag ... Ya6ouf.pdf
I haven't summed up the budgets, but it's astronomical if only for a year. As a physicist, I should marvel at all these beautiful toys ... But I'm not fooled.
You will see that there are no RES or agriculture projects (if not vague observation / observatory systems)
This reflects a total absence of common sense and the stranglehold of all the major lobbies (military, nuclear, energy producers) on the future of Man.
I cannot resist a screenshot.
The editors are a little caught up in the carpet ...
"intended to prove that
fusion is a new source of energy"...
it will not generate electricity"
So we imagine that the energy will be
non civil. They will retort "it's for later", it's for DEMO which will still cost as much, etc ...
To that,
I say it's a bit light for more than tens of billions of euros (total cost ITER, TORE SUPRA, JET ...)
A small diagram showing a fusion power of a few MW (
actually not available because more energy is injected into the torus to maintain Lawson's criterion) ...
You should know that two km² of desert equipped can currently produce 600 MW (daytime), and with the PHRSD, we should arrive at GigaW (1000 MW, or 50% of 1000 W / m² solar over 2 m²).
And with initial investments of the order of a million euros ... NOT BILLION several times.
I strongly advise everyone to read the TGIR to see how, but above all
Why we use public money, especially around page 49 of the
official document of the ministry : Idea:
It is enough to read the calculations of DESERTEC (in fact Germans of the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR)) to understand that the globalization accompanied by aberrant national and international governances is just beginning.
DESERTEC is estimated at 500 billion Euros to produce global energy (once and for all).
Subprime mortgages burned 35 billion euros in a few months.
The annual military budgets of the United States are $ 500 billion
4 sentences to ponder.