A bit of realistic sci-fi.. January 6, 2028- my grandson who was educated in the spirit of new energy, cold fusion is wonderful - has succeeded to work out the perfectly reproducible energy generating method. In the frame of a Pd - D2O system. He is a respected citizen and as it is almost compulsory in the New Moneytheistic society- a billionaire. He calls the Chief Economist of his company: "Mark, please buy the reserves of palladium any gram you can we are going to conquer the world of energy, to replace any dirty fossil fuel.. you see itis winter and it is so warm...
In two weeks the economist succeeds to buy 150 tonnes of palladium. a real wizard. My grandson's system releases 100 W per 1 sq.cm of palladium, which is in the form of a thin layer of 0.2 millimetres i.e 1 x 0.02 x 12 = 0.24 grams. It is now simple to calculate that if 0.24 g. give a power of 100 W, 200,000,000 g. will give- 8.4 10 exp 10 W or 8.4 10 exp 7 kW. in a more pragmatical language 84 millions of kWatts Or 84,000 MWatts. (US consumes now appr. 270,000 MWatts electricity) Next step- how many kWatts is Mankind consuming. Oh not so much, we are clever and are back at the value of 2008. But this value is a bit greater-than what can CF give He concludes: the CF system can contribute but cannot conquer the market of energy. He visits my grave and has a long imaginary discussion with me. I ask him to do better mathematics and use the best data. Can you help him? Thanks!
