You are perfectly right. The problem is that this not so friendly, moderately rich, Planet has much less palladium, we will be forced to import some thousands tonnes from other places. By the way, if you consult the news, you'll see that there are great problems in the electronic industry because other rare elements, the lantanides are scarce. It's a reason for Triumph to not like its image in the mirror.
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:18 PM, Terry Blanton <hohlr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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! > > > >
