First of all LENR will kill any "future" energy, I mean energy that is not yet very efficient, and are only interesting on future hypothesis. It sure will kill solar (except for <kW devices far from grid) and wind, sea turbines. it will kill clean coal and other carbon sequestration project...
then it will replace usual energy source retrofitting coal/fuel/gaz plant will be then done at a good rhythm. nuclear plant will be slower to retrofit, because have to finish the fuel then clean all, and amortizing will be painful... water dam will survive, because they are very efficient, allow storage, and quick reaction, but maybe not the huge Chinese style dam. the big mystery is about home usage. if not blocked by environmental regulation, it can kill electric heating, and develop local production. It will stabilise the grid because, unlike solar and wind, CHP produce electricity when it is most needed (night, cold) if the "smart grid" infrastructure develop well, those local CHP generators could event participate voluntarily to the stabilization of the grid, instead of destabilizing it like solar and wind today. CHP in mid-sized business can do the same. maybe even CHP can became in fact local electricity production, wasting the heat more or less. Maybe mid-sized CHP or plant, can feed group of home (a block of house, a big building, a group of enterprises)... however maybe big units will take advantage of their size to reduce the cost of electricity... for Cars the future is open. at short term LENR will reduce the pressure on price, the fear of peak oil. in fact gazoline price should lower. anyway, electricity will fall too, making electric cars cheaper to use. If we change our way to use our cars (accept renting hybrids for travel, accept changing battery pack at pump when traveling, use range extender trailer) electric car can became common use (most of real life travel are ok with electric autonomy, but not all). if energy is cheap, but not oil, coal and gaz can became the way to make synthetic fuel (gas to fuel, coal to fuel). note that biomass is not a realistic solution because of the huge volume of fuel needed... at most biomass to fuel can be a recycling market. fuel is really practical for transport, and especially to planes. but synthetic fuel is expensive, even with cheap energy, so it should be reserved to real needs (like planes and long travel) LENR could also be the long run energy in an hybrid car (it cannot be throttled quickly, so non hybrid is not possible). LENR can also be easily retroffited into cargo, and even into trains... 2011/12/1 Aussie Guy E-Cat <[email protected]> > >
