http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/08/nasa-test-fires-3d-printed-rocket-parts-low-cost-high-power-innovation/
NASA test-fires 3D printed rocket parts: low cost, high power innovation Today, NASA can build a rocket engine using 3 D manufacturing. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jed’s concept of the LENR product line evolution is sadly limited to > energy products. With the money that LENR based firms make from energy > production and products, they will reinvest in the transmutation technology > where cheap material like waste, junk, silicon, carbon, and oxygen are > transmuted into rare earths, copper and nickel. > > > > To achieve that level of control of the processes that are going on inside > the nucleus requires a huge amount of science and engineering R&D. The > money to do this science and engineering will come from the first tier of > LENR products. > > > > The next step will be the integration of 3D based printing that is coupled > with LERN transmutation. For example, the design and build specifications > of a car will be fed into a large scale manufacturing 3D printer that is > fed by mountains of junk, sand and/or water input material. > > > > Cars will roll out of the business end of the LENR 3D printing factory. > > > > It takes capital to design and build such advancements in science and > engineering. > > > > Jed sees LENR energy production as the end point of the LENR design and > science cycle. His focus is narrow and myopic. Because of his lack of > vision, Jed’s predictions cannot be true. LENR energy production is just > the beginning. What capabilities that LENR will allow us to achieve cannot > be currently imagined. > > > > What is certain is that money from the first tier of LENR products will be > used to build the next tier of products. This need for research funding is > what will keep the cost of LENR energy moderately high. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I wrote: >> >> >>> Even if we paid Rossi $10 billion today for his discovery, in a few >>> years you would be paying only a few dollars extra per car or a few dollars >>> per year for electricity to reimburse him. >>> >> >> That is not to say cold fusion devices will be cheap at first. You will >> pay a tremendous premium for them. That money will be profit for the >> companies that made the machines. The R&D will be amortized quickly and the >> rest will be gravy. It will take a while to make cold fusion into a >> commodity. The patents will have to expire. The knowledge of how to make >> them will have to spread. >> >> Once it becomes a commodity the price will fall, and fall, and fall until >> there is practically no profit in making it. Eventually, cold fusion motors >> will be cheaper than today's gasoline or electric motors. (With robotics >> and other techniques, today's motors would also get cheaper if we continued >> to develop them, but we won't.) The fuel, hydrogen, is the cheapest and >> most abundant substance in the universe, so it will never cost any >> measurable amount of money, even including the cost of purification. Even >> if only deuterium works. >> >> The technology is high tech but fundamentally simple, like making >> writable CD disks or NiCad batteries. It is something that any of a >> thousand industrial companies can learn to do, and hundreds of them will >> learn to do it. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
