Jed You forget a few details: a) Your first and probably most correct;evaluation was 300 W/cc palladium and thi is 25 W/g; b) The heavy water gives D2 with a consume of energy good COP is say 1.30 to be optimist, so you will consume 780 W (power) for getting 100 w power= imagine your generator s a huge F&P Cell- or do you have different idea? For any rational human being it is clear the PdD CF/LENR in its actual stage of development cannot be a commercial energy source. You could learn a lot from the 1MW 1year test of Andrea Rossi. Real or not, it is instructive. peter
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 8:09 PM, Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Here is a brief analysis of the cost of a 1 MW palladium-based generator -- > > I estimate that palladium can produce ~200 W/g, so you would need 5 kg. > This costs $119,000 at today's prices. An EPRI study shows that a > conventional 1 MW generator costs $267,000, so this would not cost much > more than a conventional generator, and it would be far cheaper than a 1 MW > wind turbine. With a conventional generator, over the life of the machine, > the fuel costs more than the machine. With cold fusion, the fuel cost would > negligible, so lifetime costs would be far lower. > > The generator portion of 1 MW wind turbine costs about the same as a 1 MW > combustion generator, but the tower costs $1.3 million. Yet wind is > competitive with combustion generators because the fuel is free -- wind > costs nothing. With cold fusion, the extra $119,000 you pay for palladium > is far less than the cost of the wind turbine tower. > > Regarding fuel costs, high purity heavy water today costs ~$1000/kg. It > will be much cheaper with cold fusion, because most of that cost is for the > energy used to separate heavy water from ordinary water. 1 kg of heavy > water produces 69 million megajoules of heat. A 1 MW reactor consumes 3 MJ > of heat per second, so that's 23 million seconds, or 266 days, or $3.76 per > day. Actually, it would be far cheaper because heavy water will be cheaper, > as I said. > > The EPRI generator data is on p. 2-5 here: > > http://www.publicpower.org/files/deed/finalreportcostsofutilitydistr > ibutedgenerators.pdf > > - Jed > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
