Re: Simple comparison electric car versus gasoline

[Jed Rothwell]

I wrote:

Now think of a 25 kW cold fusion generator. After 50 years of 
intense development, you can imagine one the size of today's 25 kW 
portable generators that costs $1,000, or maybe even $500.

In a walk. An ICE costs ~40/kW of capacity, or $750 for 25 kW. After 
hundreds of millions of CF generators have been produced, and after 
robots become widespread and CF reduces the cost of raw materials, I 
will bet generators are a lot cheaper than that. Generator cost and 
all, a century from now, the average person will pay a few bucks a 
year for unlimited amounts of cold fusion electricity. Nothing else 
-- not wind, fission, fusion, or space-based solar -- could ever come 
close. Nothing else could produce massive amounts of energy to 
irrigate 4 million square kilometers of desert, and do all these 
other pet projects of mine, described in the book.

- Jed