Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: If what all you say is true, why isn't cogeneration more common? >
For the reasons explained in my book. A small electric power generator today has many disadvantages over a large one. It costs more to run per kilowatt-hour, because it is inefficient. It has problems with pollution control. It has to be energy efficient. All of these disadvantages mean that it is less cost-effective even when used as a co-generator. A cold fusion generator, in contrast, will cost zero dollars per kilowatt hour, because the fuel is free. A large centralized cold fusion generator will also cost zero dollars for fuel, and so does a wind generator, but they will no longer have that as an advantage over the home generator. Efficiency will not longer matter. The home generator may convert only 25% of the heat into electricity where the large generator converts 60% but that will not save any money. On the contrary, the extra equipment and the complexity of the high efficiency will only make the big generator *less* competitive. It will serve no purpose. Pollution will be non-existant for both. Several other advantages large generators now have over small ones will also disappear. See my book, Table 14.1. - Jed
