This thing doesn't produce heat. It absorbs heat.

The article assumes you went to high school and know basic chemistry. The zinc vapour reacts with water to produce hydrogen gas and zinc oxide.

If you limited it to physical disabilities and mostly in first world countries, I could see that. Even if you still consider someone with say, a permanently attached prosthetic arm which is equal to or greater than a human one by any conceivable metric still "disabled," 50 years is in the realm of just cloning a new one and grafting it on.

What I am denying is that the amount of zinc lost will be anything but negligible compared to other costs. I am denying that the amount of zinc mined for this purpose will even register compared to what we already use. Even if you went completely off your rocker and banned any kind of emission of CO2, you can produce zinc oxide without carbon simply by burning the ore.

about 14 million tonnes of water evaporate from the oceans every second. I don't think we're going to make that much of a difference.

You have no idea how this works do you?

It's vague because they don't know. That's why they're testing it.

The zinc is a one time cost. The reactor uses zinc oxide to create hydrogen out of sunlight the same way a refinery uses steel to create gasoline from oil.

Very much no. This is for people who want hydrogen, not electricity.

If you bothered to read the headline, you would notice that this device uses sunlight to generate hydrogen, so yes, this is a fuel "source."

The transmission losses are trivial compared to the gains brought by economies of scale. Also, this is for generating hydrogen. Converting it to electricity at the same place or even in a non moving generator completely defeats the purpose.

The zinc vapour reacts with water producing zinc oxide and hydrogen gas.

1000 suns? What are we doing trying to put wind power there?

Your ugliness is lowering my property values. No one will move in next to someone so ugly. I demand that you get corrective surgery so that your face isn't so hideous people want to gouge out their eyes.

JAPC did it right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Dkai_Nuclear_Power_Plant