Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am not in agreement with that electricity is cheap. > It is much cheaper than gasoline per mile in an automobile. About 4 times cheaper, depending on the cost of gasoline. Producing electricity locally, in my opinion as local as possible has a > long list of advantages. It is less vulnerable, no transmission cost to > mention a few. > Yes. As long as you are doing that you might as well bring it to each individual house and get rid of the transmission network altogether. I see no advantage to grouping houses and 20 and supplying one generator for each group. You would still need wires connecting the houses. You are saying there are disadvantages with electrical cars besides slow > recharging. The price is one and I can guarantee that the cost of batteries > will decrease if there is a real competition. > Batteries have been in widespread use for 150 years. Enormous efforts have gone into reducing the cost of batteries, without much progress. Perhaps someday this R&D will pan out, but there has been real competition all along. > You say that generating plant should be in the Gigawatt scale. > Only if cold fusion turns out to be unsafe for some reason such as because it produces large amounts of tritium which cannot be reduced. I doubt that is the case. I expect it will be safer than any conventional source of energy such as natural gas, high-voltage electricity, or gasoline. > I think we are so far apart in that opinion so I hardly know where to > begin. Reality is that the idea of big, inflexible, vulnerable, is an > bygone idea. > You misunderstood what I said. I would only advocate large reactors if cold fusion is unsafe. > Your point about electrical cars having issues. short range and power > weight ratio is of course correct. I think the range will be extended and > the weight reduced in next generation batteries. > If cold fusion can be controlled and made safe there will be no reason to develop next generation batteries. - Jed
