Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
> I for one will not miss power lines. > You won't miss paying for them either. They cost roughly a third of your electric bill in many places. It may not seem that way, but you have to take into account the cost of repairing them after storms. At this moment in Georgia there are only 9 customers affected by outages, but most of the time there are hundreds. See: http://outagemap.georgiapower.com/external/default.html Of course there will be outages with cold fusion generators too. But a generator will be an appliance. If it breaks, one house is out of electricity until the guy from Lowe's shows up. In my experience, an appliance is more reliable than the power company, at least in Atlanta. In the early stages, cold fusion generators will probably be redundant, like the Tandem Computer minicomputers used for critical applications. If one stops working, the other will take over automatically. Later, the cold fusion power supplies will be built into everything. If one poops out you will either toss out the appliance, radio, or laptop, or replace the CF power supplies the way you replace a fan or rechargeable battery in a computer today. There will be no electric sockets in houses. No fires from electricity, and no danger of electrocution either. The only wiring in houses will be for communication and control purposes, unless that all migrates to wi-fi, I suppose. - Jed
