Lennart Thornros <lenn...@thornros.com> wrote:
> I am not in agreement with that electricity is cheap. > It is much cheaper than gasoline per mile in an automobile. About 4 times cheaper, depending on the cost of gasoline. You are now including energy taxes and big brother's energy politics. That is fine with me as that is my main idea that we are so over regulated that even the faintest hint of common sense cannot be made. No, Jed electricity is not cheap. Producing electricity locally, in my opinion as local as possible has a > long list of advantages. It is less vulnerable, no transmission cost to > mention a few. > Yes. As long as you are doing that you might as well bring it to each individual house and get rid of the transmission network altogether. I see no advantage to grouping houses and 20 and supplying one generator for each group. You would still need wires connecting the houses. Surpise surprise I totally agree with you. However, even if there are issues with implementation of the product I am sure we will benefit from not having to use the total grid. It could be that best is to have two generators for ten houses. Redundancy nad installation cost. The wires are already there. You are saying there are disadvantages with electrical cars besides slow > recharging. The price is one and I can guarantee that the cost of batteries > will decrease if there is a real competition. > Batteries have been in widespread use for 150 years. Enormous efforts have gone into reducing the cost of batteries, without much progress. Perhaps someday this R&D will pan out, but there has been real competition all along. OK batteries has been worked on for a long time. I am sure if you make a graph you will find most progress has been made the last ten years. Just read the parallel thread about Mega Farad capacitors. You think that is the final step> No it is not. > You say that generating plant should be in the Gigawatt scale. > Only if cold fusion turns out to be unsafe for some reason such as because it produces large amounts of tritium which cannot be reduced. I doubt that is the case. I expect it will be safer than any conventional source of energy such as natural gas, high-voltage electricity, or gasoline. The beuty of LENR is that it can be deployed small scale. I read the article http://www.lenr-forum.com/forum/index.php/Thread/2049-Small-scale-nuclear-fusion-could-become-a-new-source-of-energy-Press-release-fro/ they say there will be no significant radiation. I see no other safety issues, lots of engineering though. I understood there was no issue with Tritium production maybe I read wrong. Here is what I read: "No radiationThe new fusion process can take place in relatively small laser-fired fusion reactors fuelled by heavy hydrogen (deuterium). It has already been shown to produce more energy than that needed to start it. Heavy hydrogen is found in large quantities in ordinary water and is easy to extract. The dangerous handling of radioactive heavy hydrogen (tritium) which would most likely be needed for operating large-scale fusion reactors with a magnetic enclosure in the future is therefore unnecessary. " > I think we are so far apart in that opinion so I hardly know where to > begin. Reality is that the idea of big, inflexible, vulnerable, is an > bygone idea. > You misunderstood what I said. I would only advocate large reactors if cold fusion is unsafe.I would rather engineer the safety issues or find another LENR without the problem. Large scale is the problem. > Your point about electrical cars having issues. short range and power > weight ratio is of course correct. I think the range will be extended and > the weight reduced in next generation batteries. > If cold fusion can be controlled and made safe there will be no reason to develop next generation batteries. at this point I just disagree. I think batteries will be attractive. There should be no reason to haLPG gas bottles in a home plumbed for natural gas. Well it is. Best Regards , Lennart Thornros www.StrategicLeadershipSac.com lenn...@thornros.com +1 916 436 1899 202 Granite Park Court, Lincoln CA 95648 “Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” PJM On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 8:03 AM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Lennart Thornros <lenn...@thornros.com> wrote: > > >> I am not in agreement with that electricity is cheap. >> > > It is much cheaper than gasoline per mile in an automobile. About 4 times > cheaper, depending on the cost of gasoline. > > > Producing electricity locally, in my opinion as local as possible has a >> long list of advantages. It is less vulnerable, no transmission cost to >> mention a few. >> > > Yes. As long as you are doing that you might as well bring it to each > individual house and get rid of the transmission network altogether. I see > no advantage to grouping houses and 20 and supplying one generator for each > group. You would still need wires connecting the houses. > > > You are saying there are disadvantages with electrical cars besides slow >> recharging. The price is one and I can guarantee that the cost of batteries >> will decrease if there is a real competition. >> > > Batteries have been in widespread use for 150 years. Enormous efforts have > gone into reducing the cost of batteries, without much progress. Perhaps > someday this R&D will pan out, but there has been real competition all > along. > > > >> You say that generating plant should be in the Gigawatt scale. >> > > Only if cold fusion turns out to be unsafe for some reason such as because > it produces large amounts of tritium which cannot be reduced. I doubt that > is the case. I expect it will be safer than any conventional source of > energy such as natural gas, high-voltage electricity, or gasoline. > > > >> I think we are so far apart in that opinion so I hardly know where to >> begin. Reality is that the idea of big, inflexible, vulnerable, is an >> bygone idea. >> > > You misunderstood what I said. I would only advocate large reactors if > cold fusion is unsafe. > > > >> Your point about electrical cars having issues. short range and power >> weight ratio is of course correct. I think the range will be extended and >> the weight reduced in next generation batteries. >> > > If cold fusion can be controlled and made safe there will be no reason to > develop next generation batteries. > > - Jed > >
