Jouni Valkonen <jounivalko...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Indeed, lenr is no good for airplanes due to low power density and extreme > cost of onboard power generators. >
I do not think so. Cold fusion power density has sometimes been as high as a fission reactor core, which is high enough for an aircraft engine. Fission reactor airplane engines were developed in the 1950s. See chapter 18 of my book, and also: http://www.aviation-history.com/articles/nuke-american.htm Furthermore, you can make the cold fusion engine heavy and large, because the mass of fuel is so small. All plans for fission/LENR planes rely on assumption that the price of Jet > fuel would increase, but this is silly assumption! Fuel/energy usually gets > cheaper over time if we are looking longer trends. > Cold fusion will be orders of magnitude cheaper than jet fuel. - Jed
