All the LENR component suppliers need reliable electricity to produce
their components as do their supplier and their suppliers, etc as well
as the employes and their suppliers need reliable electricity. If the
grid becomes unreliable, we may lose the ability to make more LENR
devices and then we have burned our bridges and are F**Ced. That can't
be allowed to happen. The grid must be maintained in a highly reliable
state and the same for the thermal plant driving the grid or we are
seeing the beginning of the end.
LENR devices are the Pandora's box of our generation. The devil you do,
the devil you do not. It would seem the genie is awaking and can't be
put back into the bottle. Heaven help us all for we may not know what we
have created and it's potential to destroy all we have built if we use
LENR devices to power our homes and reduce our electricity and gas
consumption to ZERO.
AG
On 12/1/2011 9:49 AM, Jed Rothwell wrote:
Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
A 15% shift off grid would reduce the grid owners income enough to
stop grid maintenance and then the 85% on grid would have no
power. I do agree that with LENR home reactors we may not need the
grid but moving from where we are today to that situation will be
very difficult.
It will only be difficult for people who want to stay on the grid, or
who cannot afford to buy their own cold fusion generators. It will not
be a bit difficult for those who jump ship.
Of course it will be difficult for the power companies! That's a shame
for them, but the rest of us will not care. We did not care when
passenger railroads were driven out of business by cars and airplanes,
and when DEC and other minicomputer companies were driven out of
business by personal computers.
The same is true for gasoline powered automobiles. After five or 10%
of the cars on the road are cold fusion powered, gas stations will
begin closing down in droves. Even a small reduction in their revenue
drives them out of business. People who still want to drive gasoline
powered vehicles will soon have difficulty finding a place to fill up.
Automobiles last around 8 years these days. I predict that when one
third of the cars on the road are cold fusion powered, most gas
stations will close and the the remaining two thirds will be scrapped
sooner than normal. Soon, only a few hobbyists will still have them.
They will be about as common as typewriters are today.
I discussed these issues in my book.
- Jed
