Much of our quality of life in the developed world has been enchanced tremendously due to fossil fuel usage:
Fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, were not used as a source of energy until the latter half of the 19th century. Prior to that, wind and water power were used for industrial mills. As the industrial revolution progressed, steam engines were used to drive boats and factories, making the use of coal necessary. Widespread use of electricity for lighting was not needed until the transmission of electricity and the light bulb were made practical late in the 19th century. Coal power was the main form used by these early plants. Oil was used to power steam engines, but it wasn't until the 20th century and the invention of the internal combustion engine that its demand soared. After the 1950s, oil became the world's foremost fuel. The automobile and power plants in the United States created an enormous need for petroleum fuel. This demand has only increased to the present day. LENR will drive energy costs to a minimum and further increase the quality of life for all humans. Sure, lots of change in industry, governments and tax structures to support governments, etc. but humans thrive on change and development. Look where we have gone with the silicon-based microprocessor in the past 40 years. All culminating in....Facebook? On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com>wrote: > I hope so, and I feel that today energy cost is felt as a master parameter. > > It is just that it seems that it is only 10% of the produced good value... > > It is just a confilt between what my eyes see, and what the consensus > seems to be... In that domain my intuition is not good enough to have a > safe opinion... > > anyway it will make a shock of productivity, and as many say here, will > create new organization, goods, services, that maybe will have more impact. > One of them is simply food, water, education, ... > > > 2012/7/18 Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> > >> Alain Sepeda <alain.sep...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> It will be important shock, but not so huge. at most 10% >>> >>> of course you can expect that the technology will become even cheaper, >>> but even if LENR get to zero, the turbines, cooling and alike will stay as >>> expensive (and I have under estimated their cost). >>> >> >> I suggest you read my book, chapters 14 and 15 especially. I show why >> cold fusion will probably reduce electric power costs by two-thirds >> quickly, and why eventually it will reduce all energy costs -- including >> equipment costs -- by orders of magnitude. >> >> To summarize: when one component in a system falls in price, the other >> components also soon become cheaper. Cheap microcomputers spurred the >> development of cheap hard disks and printers. >> >> I may be wrong about that, but I consulted with experts and thought about >> it carefully. I did not reach that conclusion in week or two. More like >> several years after reading lots of books. >> >> - Jed >> >> >
