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Wait 2 decades, wonder what ever happened to it and find out Shell bought the patents and shelved it

oh yes your pessimism definitely helps. good job on being a positive voice for change.

Happy to help! We all play our part in society, thank you for fulfilling yours

It made you think didn't it?

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what is 'this' referring to?

Ah yes. The circular form. A power not of flesh, but over flesh.

Gonna take a shot in the dark and say "quantum sensors."

So howmuch quantum can they sense?

This won't happen, what they did is find ways to replace lasers with sunlight, so that you don't need a laser with an external power pack anymore. It's not a new 'energy source', it's not even a new solar power technique. It's an alternative to conventional testing setups that replaces some power hungry components with systems that can use light from the environment and the Earth's magnetic field to operate.

So if you read the article it says in many quantum test setups you need a powerful laser and microwave generator, so you need an external power source to run the experiment. These researchers designed an alternative test setup that uses sunlight in place of the powerful laser and the earth magnetic field in place of the microwave generator to perform similar tests, so you don't need much external power to run the tests anymore.

If I’m being honest, I’m far from concerned about the amount of energy that research takes up

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Lasers are horribly inefficient at converting power from your wall to actual output power.

The first time this comment was posted 10 years ago it made me think. Since then it's been a race between morons to see who can be the first one to post it in a new thread.