Your view of humanity is clouded by unwarranted optimism.
I see humanity as selfish, slovenly, and wanton creatures whose unlimited appetites are only constrained by cost. In the face of unlimited free power extreme excess is to be expected; a Jevons paradox run wild. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox People will own a car for every day of the week. For example, I see millions of 1000 horsepower equivalent cars in Cat-E standby mode parked on city streets pumping out gigawatts of waste power every second of the day and night because their users require instant on performance. Unlimited power will corrupt absolutely. On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
