Quoting this article: ". . . Once near their destination the conventional aircraft could take back off from the back of the giant LENR machine and then land on the ground. The thought is that an air transport scheme like this could save 40% of the fuel required for a conventional flight on a 1000km route and on a longer 10,000km route; the savings could be as high as 85-90%."
That is one of the dumbest projections of the future with cold fusion that I have ever seen. If you have cold fusion, why the heck would anyone bother to save 40% of the fuel?!? That's a few grams of heavy water. Worth a few pennies with cold fusion extraction techniques. Or it is a cup of ordinary water if Rossi is right. Why on earth would you launch these gigantic machines just to save a little water? There might be other uses for gigantic airborne machines but this is definitely not one of them. - Jed
