Lennart Thornros <[email protected]> wrote: I think I said that the engineering will happen over many years to come. > I guess a COP of 0.02 would be like an Otto motor and not [too] attractive. >
I would compare it to seeing a charged electric wire deflect a magnet in 1820, and from there extrapolating to the telegraph and the electric motor. (André-Marie Ampère suggested an electromagnetic telegraph in 1821, one year after Oersted discovered the effect. Here are some nifty pictures of early electric motors, which were as varied as cold fusion devices are today: https://www.eti.kit.edu/english/1376.php) Or, you might compare it to Mme. Curie and others seeing radioactivity in1895 and extrapolating to nuclear power reactors and bombs. That was not such a stretch. HG Wells described nuclear bombs in 1913 in the book "The World Set Free." (He got the details completely wrong. He imagined them as miniature suns producing continuous heat lasting for a long time rather than a single rapid event. However, he did understand the overall energy release and destructive power.) > It's better be over 1. > Only to people who have little imagination and no knowledge of the history of technology. Unfortunately many people who have little imagination, and many of them are in charge of industrial corporations. So in that sense your point is well taken. If the people in charge of corporations understood science & technology they would have poured billions into cold fusion already. - Jed
