He's gonna need more Pd. In 2008, the world consumption of all types of power averaged 1.504 x 10^13 W.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_resources_and_consumption At 2.4 x 10^-3 g/W, he would need 3.61 x 10^10 g of Pd (plus about 2% growth per year) or about 36,000 metric tonnes. And he would need really good batteries to flatten out the load. :-) T On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Peter Gluck <peter.gl...@gmail.com> wrote: > A bit of realistic sci-fi.. > January 6, 2028- my grandson who was educated in the spirit > of new energy, cold fusion is wonderful - has succeeded to > work out the perfectly reproducible energy generating method. > In the frame of a Pd - D2O system. > He is a respected citizen and as it is almost compulsory in > the New Moneytheistic society- a billionaire. He calls the > Chief Economist of his company: > "Mark, please buy the reserves of palladium any gram you > can we are going to conquer the world of energy, to replace > any dirty fossil fuel.. you see itis winter and it is so warm... > In two weeks the economist succeeds to buy 150 tonnes > of palladium. a real wizard. > My grandson's system releases 100 W per 1 sq.cm > of palladium, which is in the form of a thin layer of > 0.2 millimetres i.e 1 x 0.02 x 12 = 0.24 grams. > It is now simple to calculate that if > 0.24 g. give a power of 100 W, 200,000,000 g. > will give- 8.4 10 exp 10 W or 8.4 10 exp 7 kW. in a > more pragmatical language 84 millions of kWatts > Or 84,000 MWatts. (US consumes now appr. > 270,000 MWatts electricity) > Next step- how many kWatts is Mankind consuming. > Oh not so much, we are clever and are back at the value > of 2008. But this value is a bit greater-than what can CF give > He concludes: > the CF system can contribute but cannot conquer the market > of energy. > He visits my grave and has a long imaginary discussion > with me. I ask him to do better mathematics and > use the best data. Can you help him? Thanks! >
