"the thermodynamic cycles are the same for LENR" Yes they are the same Rankine cycle but the 65% excess heat energy generated locally with LENR can be used to heat water, homes and factories and in the summer maybe to run absorption chillers for extra cooling. Also, DGT's reactor can cycle up 5 kW thermal increments by closing a 24 V contact and energizing one more core much like 12 cyclinder IC engines can go from 6-8-10-12 cylinders and only generate the power when needed. It will be no contest, utililities are toast.
Also, 30% of the fossil fuel energy today is used to drill, mine and transport the fossil fuels themselves! On Monday, February 20, 2012, Alain Sepeda wrote: > you mix two lossed. > the thermodynamic cycles are the same for LENR, even worse for small > units, and lower temperature of reactors. > this is why bigger units might be more efficent that smaller. > > the other lossed are transport losses. > but don't forget that in LENR the biggest cost is not fuel but investment. > investing in a generator 5 times bigger than your average consumtion, just > to be off the grid is not efficient. > > also if the grid became a peer to peer network, and no more a donwnload > network, the transport losses will be strong ly reduced. > > the good point is that grid could be more easily managed because more > naturally balanced. > anyway ther could be some regional/temporal disbalance where the big > powerlines will be usefull to avoid building big huge powerplants... > > once again we have changed paradigm, investment and maintenance is the > cost, this means maximum power. no more the energy itself. > > 2012/2/21 Chemical Engineer <[email protected] <javascript:_e({}, > 'cvml', '[email protected]');>> > >> The travesty of the existing grid is that only 25-45% of the fossil >> energy produced in heat and elec. at the utility company ever makes it to >> the end user. The rest goes out the stack/cooling tower/river or ocean >> water as Polution to the environment >> >> >> >>>> >>> >
