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Lightcell: An engine that uses light to make electricity

(www.lightcellenergy.com)
112 points curl-up | 1 comments | 14 Jan 25 13:36 UTC | HN request time: 0.213s | source
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jasonjmcghee ◴[17 Jan 25 20:08 UTC] No.42742715[source]▶
I've periodically seen lightcell and danielle fong in various news / reddit /forums over the last few years and it always seems to be steeped in controversy.

I know next to nothing about the field / tech, but a portion of folks seem to be like "incredible visionary etc. etc." and the another portion like "fringe science / complete bullshit / this is as realistic as cold fusion" kind of thing.

Very interested to hear from folks more in the know of like, high level long term viability / what the implications are etc.

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1. sesm ◴[17 Jan 25 22:54 UTC] No.42744115[source]▶
It's not like cold fusion, the lightcell is based on well-understood physics. The author may be too optimistic with efficiency claim, but those are relatively easy to verify independently.