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Cool. cheap clean energy is the bestest. Technology for the win again.

If it actually works as described in this article, then Fan should get the Nobel price for his work.

However, this is a Foxnews article, and there is a very long way from small scale lab experiments to mass production, so I'm skeptical for now.

Would be fantastic, but lets see if it actually works.

to be fair, it's not like fossil fuels get no subsidies/govt funding atm. for R&D alone

"In the United States, the federal government has paid US$74 billion for energy subsidies to support R&D for nuclear power ($50 billion) and fossil fuels ($24 billion) from 1973 to 2003. During this same timeframe, renewable energy technologies and energy efficiency received a total of US$26 billion."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_subsidies

but ya this is defo something worth putting money into. what is the energy output compared to burning it i wonder?

What happens to the Co2?

I wonder how the costs work out v. renewables when you consider that coal is still a finite resource.

Good news in the short term if they can make it work though.