From: Jed Rothwell
* Nonsense. If his gadget works he will blow away solar, wind, oil, coal, nukes and everything else. In 20 years they will cease to exist. That assumes unproved reliability and a lot of other things that could make it more expensive than realized. What if it gets down to needing a completely new heat reactor every six months? That could happen. It will probably still work-out financially, since palladium and deuterium are not required; but with far less 'cushion' than many assume, especially compared to coal - the lowest cost energy now. Coal has political clout and you would need to get the competition to rough parity in cost. This would seem to definitely require mass production of reactor units, in the same volume as say, automobiles - to be really cheap energy. But of course that is expected to be the case. It may not scale well to higher power densities for unknown reasons - probably relating to nickel melting in a runaway, but one could imagine producing a plug-in version of the 10kW unit for say $5000 a pop in large numbers. Jones
