All undocumented people should be deported. It’s the law. Period. We are all immigrants unless your a Native American. My family and others came to America the right and legal way. They should also.

I happen to be rather familiar with quantum field theory. As in, that's my job. So if you would like me to heal your "lack of knowledge" I'd be more than happy to but the QEG is a scam, plain and simple.

The extra output would be minimal and it would indeed still require "radical" changes. Surmountable I'm sure but not worth it. The key to scalability with nano-devices is volume; you can pack a lot of "nano" in a cubic meter. A sheet or two isn't going to do anything, but a billion...that's a different story.

It's a capacitive effect; ideally the free electrons in the graphene never leave it. Near the surface of the graphene localized charge distributions attract the free ions in the solution. Those ions (in the case of the salt water, the positive sodium ions) form a thin layer above the graphene. In response, the…

Very true, but I don't believe salt water is required, merely water with ionic species, which tap and fresh water also have.

You have to think outside the box. Think current hydro setups and have a grapheme coating over the turbines. Extra energy output without modifying the original setup radically, and still having mostly the same hydro schemes in place that have been maintained for years and years.

Nope, not free at all. To use gravity you generally have to lift something up before you can get energy out of it when it falls down. The great thing about hydroelectric power is that we get the lift-up part for free; sunlight vaporizes water, which rises, condenses and falls as rain.

Yep. Gravity's a pretty sweet thing.

Fortunately for us there are things like tides and currents and gravity. The earth, moon, and sun have been dumping literally insane amounts of energy into the ocean since before we ever got here. About time we start thinking about taking some out.

Or could this in conjunction with a desalination plant. The salt water is used to power the plant and hopefully the community around it, you get clean water, and also salt to treating roads and such.

While done via a complex and very interesting mechanism, this is still just inductance...which has always been scalable to rather small scales, just not nano-scales. So the Hoover Dam isn't a very useful comparison, especially since you'll still need a total scale on the order of Hoover (well, maybe within an order or…

You're confusing the way turbines work. Turbines work by liquid or air (or some other moving mass) moving a blade that in turn spins the inside rotor of a power cell. (loose explanation). In that fashion you can make a very light and durable turbine out of graphine (lighter turbine blade = less friction = greater…

The only problem is you have to start on a hill to get that first bit of juice.

IMAGINE! a boat that could travel around the world without using any fuel whatsoever! oh wait they had those 10,000 years ago nevermind.

If someone manages to generate graphene at a economically feasible manner they will become very rich and would make a lot of great things possible. At this point creating graphene must generate more impact than the current electricity generation alternatives.