On Nov 30, 2011, at 2:45 PM, Aussie Guy E-Cat wrote:
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
There were similar worries about the future of horses and buggies.
Telephone switchboard operators jobs were threatened when automatic
switching was invented. Factory automation with robots was fought for
years. The future is coming, and it is better to adapt to it than
fight it.
Above ground power lines are a hazard, and a blight on the country
side. I say good riddance. Oil and gas serves a much better purpose
as feed stocks for materials production rather than burning for
energy. We are likely past Hubbert's peak. If we don't greatly
reduce our consumption of carbon products then future generations
will suffer greatly. If global warming is not stopped there may be
few future generations, if runaway climate feedback occurs.
I say bring it on, the sooner the better. Centralized power
production should be the easiest to implement using CF. If so, the
power utilities should be able to remain highly competitive, given
nearly zero fuel costs. Individuals selling power to the net may
enhance its usefulness and survival time. The grid might ultimately
be nationalized and supported by taxes, similar to highways, for some
period of time.
I expect many new industries to develop, such as old ICE car
conversion to electric or even CF power, or greenhouses that would
not be economical to heat otherwise.
Here in Alaska energy delivery to bush communities occurs only once a
year in many cases, and the cost is 5-10 times the national average.
There are many places that would benefit greatly from off-grid power
because they are already off grid, at least off transmission grids.
Here in Southcentral Alaska, believe it or not, we have a momentary
shortage of natural gas, despite a 1 recent TCF find in Cook inlet.
The media this winter will announce requests to reduce thermostats to
65°F, or 60°F, depending on peak load conditions. People are asked
in these cases to reduce electricity use to a minimum. There are
expected to be rolling blackouts in these cases. For most people
this also amounts to loss of heat when there is no power. Though the
shortages here are a result of very bad planning (until recently we
were exporting LNG and fertilizer made form Cook Inlet gas), and
perhaps corrupt politics, this still serves as an example of the kind
of future everyone can expect if there is anything at all to
Hubbert's peak.
Time is of the essence. If E-cats are a bust it is likely a very
untimely disaster for the field. We need LENR energy now.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
