In reply to Aussie Guy E-Cat's message of Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:23:48 +1030: Hi, [snip] >I grew up supporting the grid and will fight to see it retained. However >LENR brings new business opportunities. With 45 kW of heat from a >Hyperion unit, it is possible to build a relative low cost and simple >CHP system to interface to the Hyperion unit. There is simply no >commercial reason to feed the Ac kWhs back into the grid. We do have the >opportunity to build 10 - 50 MW LENR plants as peaking generators. With >that business model, there is very rapid payback. The idea is to cherry >pick the most profitable markets for LENR systems, to develop turn key >solutions and then to make sales. As we see it, market resistance is the >lowest in domestic CHP followed by investor owned non dispatched 10+ MW >peaking plants and finally base load plants or retro fits to replace >fossil fuel powered boilers. [snip] At least in the beginning the reliability of these units is not likely to be high. A grid connection provides for the possibility of grid backup when a unit fails. When lots of units are in use, they provide backup for one another. Therefore I think the most likely scenario is that the grid itself will remain for some time, but central power generation will die off. Regards,
Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
