RE: Steemit Basic Income Giveaway (Technology and Inventions)
Hi, I will go with an invention related to my work, the harnessing of nuclear power. Einstein predicted that E=mc^2 and that mass is a huge store of energy so huge that it makes other stores of energy such as coal look like a bad joke. Everything around us is filled with enough energy to annihilate the entire world.
The big problem is how to access this power and currently we do so by splitting atoms such that the outgoing states have a tiny bit less mass that is converted into pure energy. This technology has the potential to bring cheap energy to the world, but also huge downsides of producing nuclear waste. Currently it is very hard to say if nuclear power plants are a blessing or a curse.
The same holds for nuclear bombs, the most dangerous weapon ever developed, able to wipe out entire cities in one second. Will this technology bring lasting peace or destroy our entire civilisation? Only time will tell.
Now I became death, destroyer of worlds
Oppenheimer
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I believe Robert Oppenheimer was quoting the Hindu god Vishnu from the Bhagavad Gita.
We are lucky that the avatars of Vishnu never learnt to split the atom...
This is so true! Bengy you are funnily philosophical!
It is a mixed blessing.. But technology is morally agnostic. In the other hand nuclear waste (and the potential for accidental contamination) is a large price to pay. I hear that fusion has broken at the experimental stage (laser confinement), now if only that could be scaled up, that would be a potentially game changing fix...
Or if there was a possibility of solid state battery storage...
But definitely, nuclear power has given us a boost to efficiency of energy production, which is essential for a modern civilisation.
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