Axil Axil wrote:
You stated that the Cat-E should be maintained in hot mode 24/7/365. For almost all of that time, the Cat-E in this mode supports only a few watts of needed electric power. This reduces its effective efficiency to very low levels since almost all of its power is sent to waste heat.
When power demand is low, the machine can be turned down to produce low levels of heat, perhaps in a stand-by mode to keep a boiler hot. Efficiency is roughly the same in all power levels.
As I said, taking into account space heating, water heating and thermal air conditioning and refrigeration, cold fusion will require much less raw energy than our present systems. With present-day methods we burn gas to make high grade heat which we then degrade into low grade heat for space heating, and we generate electricity and throw away 70% of the energy. This is thermodynamic lunacy. The U.S. wastes 26 quads of energy, which is about 7% of all of the energy consumed in the world. Cold fusion will eliminate much of this waste.
Any energy system designed from the ground up in the 21st century would eliminate much of this waste, especially in transportation. As I said in the book, cold fusion cars cannot help but be more efficient than gasoline powered ones. You would have be some kind of perverse mad-scientist to come up with a cold fusion powered car as inefficient as a gasoline-powered one.
- Jed
