Micro-computers are being replaced with WEB based display units where all the applications are centralized on the web: Office 360.
A home owner will not tolerate the requirement to change his LENR powder every 6 months on all the hundreds of his electrical devices. If his refrigerator fails because of fuel loss when he is traveling, his food supply is destroyed for months on LENR lost. On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Axil Axil <janap...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> Humanity will continue to migrate into the city from the remote >> countryside Cities will house people in high concentrations. >> > > In high concentrations, central generators may remain cost effective for a > while. Eventually, all machines will have built in cold fusion power > supplies. There will be no distribution of electricity anywhere, not even > in your house. > > Arthur Clarke predicted that cold fusion home generators will be DC, not > AC, because it is a lot safer. You cannot distribute DC electricity with a > power company, and transformers are wasteful and expensive. > > Cold fusion power generators can be cogenerators, replacing central > heating or hot water heaters, at practically no additional cost. > > > >> Power production will continue to be grid based and connected to huge >> power stations where economies of scale will rule the day. >> > > Economy of scale does not work when scaling up costs more than scaling > down! That is why we have microcomputers nowadays instead of mainframe and > minicomputers. Even giant computers are made up of small ones in an MPP > configuration. Starting around 1980, small computers become more cost > effective than large ones. It was the "economy of scale" reversed -- the > smaller, the cheaper per FLOP or storage space. > > The same thing happened to rural passenger rail transportation after the > introduction of the Model T. It soon became cheaper to drive a car than to > ride in a train or trolley car. Only large urban short range passenger > service survived. Automobiles are scaled down from railroad locomotives. > They are decentralized. They are not only cheaper, but far more convenient. > Cold fusion home generators will ultimately be far cheaper, more reliable > and more convenient than central electric power distribution. > > Also, many applications that now use electricity will use cold fusion heat > directly. These include space heating, water heating, air conditioning and > refrigeration, clothes drying, process heating and so on. About 8% of all > energy used in the home. See chapter 15 of my book. > > - Jed > >
