You hit on the essential consequence of CF, Steven. This power source
could replace all other power sources everywhere and give the Third
world the same benefit the First World has, but at much less expense.
It would replace the grid and most of the pipelines that carry gas and
gasoline. In other words, the financial structure of the world would
change in a basic way. Why else do you think so much skepticism was
created by the power structure, with the help of narrow minded
scientists. This is the most disruptive and revolutionary technology
since fire. Of course, this fact is not wasted on the government and
every aware person who would lose money as the present infrastructure
is replaced. The Navy and the DOD are interested because it would
make waging war so much easier and effective. All we need now is the
knowledge to make it work on a large scale. If you think the present
economic problems are bad, wait until people realize that most of the
major cooperations would go bankrupt as their products become
worthless. Another example of being careful about what you wish for.
Ed
On Apr 20, 2009, at 9:28 AM, OrionWorks wrote:
Something else that piqued my interest:
McKubre's highly optimist prediction of being able to manufacture CF
power cells possibly within 20 years seemed carefully worded. What I
mean by that is that if these power cells can indeed be economically
manufactured, particularly for the excessive power consumption needs
of most America cars, IMO, there is absolutely no reason why the same
technology could not be used to get every single household, building,
and industrial complex completely off the grid. However, to publicly
speculate about such a possibility might be considered so disruptive
to the economic fabric of our society that I wonder if McKubre
deliberately chose not to go there. Instead, McKubre suggested CF
power cells could be used to replace the infrastructure of most power
utilities, and as such, save the power utility's reason for existence.
Actually, IMO, even if it is technically plausible to get every
building off the grid and completely self sufficient there are valid
reasons to maintain some kind of a local grid - something akin to how
the Internet works. For example, if the power generator housed in your
basement suddenly (and most inconveniently) decided to go on the fritz
Sunday evening just when you're sitting down to watch another
installment of 60 minutes it would be nice to be able to automatically
receive power from your neighbor's power generator next door, or even
better, from several of your neighbors. I suspect this could only be
possible if there was a smart grid in place constantly monitoring the
power requirements of all households in every block.
It would seem to me that power utilities may need to re-invent
themselves. There's no reason why they shouldn't be up to the task.
Instead of being the supplier of energy to the masses, they may need
to transform themselves into service companies that maintain the
optimal health of each household power generator, all this for a
nominal monthly service fee of course. It would be no different than
receiving cable service for TV and Internet.
And of course, you KNOW there will have to be some kind of regulation,
probably on the national scale. There would HAVE to be some kind of
distributive power standards in place to make sure accidents wouldn't
happen. For example: someone's power module might accidentally begin
spilling excess power into the local grid, or worse, slip out of phase
with the local grid. This would possibly disrupt the power needs of
the entire block - and then NOBODY gets to watch 60 Minutes!
This is, of course, the same strategy that BLP is attempting to
exploit. Economically speaking, it is less disruptive if one includes
the white elephant.
Regards
Steven Vincent Johnson
www.OrionWorks.com
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