On Nov 30, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
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Overall, cold fusion will you use less raw heat than today's
overall energy production because all cold fusion home generators
will also be cogenerators (combined heat and power units). It makes
no sense to build anything else. There is no point to throwing away
the waste heat, especially in winter.
- Jed
Heat can also be used directly for air conditioning and
refrigeration. This might be of more interest to Aussi Guy than my
fellow Alaskans. 8^) See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption_refrigerator
I've often thought a solar concentrator combined with an absorption
cooler system would be useful in sunny places. The sun is then
available when it is needed most. Now that photoelectric systems are
cheaper than solar thermal, I perhaps this is an idea that is past
its time.
A personal survival cooling suit or chamber, powered by a solar
panel, with thermoelectric cooling, might be more fashionably on the
upswing.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
