Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: In an apartment building complex in which 10,000 people live, it is cost > effective to wire the apartments together to the city wide GRID than to > install a separate LENR reactor in each apartment. >
It is now, but it will not be when cold fusion power supply technology matures. There are large, centralized heating and air conditioners (HVAC) in office buildings and shopping malls. They are cost effective. But they are not generally used in an apartment building complex. Individual HVAC are more cost effective in low density apartment complexes. Ultimately, individual cold fusion generators will become more cost effective, and then finally individual thermoelectric power supplied in every device, from a hearing aid battery up to a washing machine or an automobile. Actual HVAC devices including the air conditioner will be run directly with cold fusion heat, using thermal refrigerators. I doubt there is any cost savings making these centralized. Why move the heat or cold air when you can generate it where it is needed? On the other hand, at Cornell U. and in New York City they use centrally generated steam for heating. It used to be from co-generation. So perhaps there will remain some high population areas where it will make sense to move hot fluid around rather than generate the heat where it is needed. On the other hand the Cornell heating system used to be terrible. Too cold or too hot everywhere! - Jed
