one point to support your vision jed, no grid, agains what I propose as possible, a microgrid, can be found with It, Internet.
if you see internet it is both like a grid with utilities, the internet provider, servers, sites, DNS, routers ... and individual resources, PC, personal wifinetwork... ther is no peer to peer wifi that is seriously working, like the microgrid I propose. people have difficulties to share. however maybe the sucess of sharing economy, may allow that... making analogies with those 3 situations would help us to understand the problems. users basically don't want to worry, even if it is expensive. either he rent a comodity (taxi, internet, cloud disk, cloud CPU, ) or he own an asset (disk, PC, datacenter). people seldom share resources, if it is not through a consolidated thirdparty infrastructure. now if regulation is a problem, peer to peer seems to be interesting. Tor, P2P file sharing, PGP, bitcoin, darknet,... microgrid could appear if 1- dedicated devices are not affordable for one user 2- shared devices are too much regulated and taxed to be affordable/usable. 2 will be probably true untill utilities die... 1- is false... so you are right jed. one (pair) generator is enough... fr one house, for one building or even one level/company or one flat. 2015-01-20 15:53 GMT+01:00 Jed Rothwell <[email protected]>: > Eric Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> To be included in the disadvantages of a new technology are ones relating >> to existing regulations and to sunk capital costs. >> > > Yes. > > It is hard to predict the effect of regulations on cold fusion. > > Sunk capital costs for equipment and infrastructure can have a large > impact on the new technology, or a small impact, depending on > circumstances. I believe that the need for new infrastructure will prevent > the use of hydrogen automobiles and battery swapping machines. Plug-in > hybrid cars have a huge advantage because they can use the existing > gasoline delivery infrastructure. > > Fortunately, sunk costs will not have much impact on cold fusion. There > are sunk costs for existing equipment. People will not run out and buy cold > fusion cars the moment they come on the market. They will wait until their > present automobiles wear out. This will not take long. Automobiles, > domestic heating and air conditioning equipment and appliances seldom last > longer than 10 or 15 years. The sunk cost of the existing energy delivery > infrastructures for electricity, gasoline and natural gas will have no > impact on cold fusion, because cold fusion does not need any > infrastructure. All the fuel you need is built into the equipment. Or if it > needs replacement, the repair man or mechanic can deliver a ten-year supply > in the palm of his hand. > > - Jed > >
