Axil Axil wrote:
Where is the best place to site the Cat-E in a home?
It does not matter. You have to have a chimney and blower for the waste
heat no matter where you put it.
In order to keep the need for distilled water low, a steam condenser
will be required to reject waste heat to the immediate environment.
In a 10 kw system, 8.5 Kws of waste heat will be pumped into the
environment.
No. It would be used in co-generation, for heating in winter and thermal
refrigeration in summer. This would save a lot of money in equipment.
(It will save no money for fuel, because that is free.)
Overall primary energy consumption is likely to fall with cold fusion.
At least at first, until large scale projects begin, such as
desalinating water to irrigate deserts.
I looked at some documents about weather and urban heat islands. At
present overall energy consumption rates, I think cold fusion will
reduce these problems, even when automobiles and home generators are
left in standby mode. Human-generated heat is a problem but not severe
yet. It is nothing compared to CO2 global warming. Obviously cold fusion
will eliminate CO2 emissions. It can also be used to capture carbon from
the air and sequester it back in the earth where it came from. I am not
talking about sequestering CO2; I mean reverse combustion, separating C
from O, putting the O back in the air, and burying the C, perhaps in the
form of liquid hydrocarbons that can be conveniently pumped underground.
In other words, we may need a few hundred thousand reverse oil wells.
All the energy we got out of burning oil and coal we may need to put
into undoing the results and burying the fuel.
We will need a little oil for plastic feedstock, but most of it will be
useless industrial waste.
I discussed this in my book.
- Jed
