<[email protected]> wrote: Sunrise offer is also conditional on Brillouin striking preliminary > >agreement to acquire at least one “stranded asset” conventional fuel > source > >small scale (5-10MW) Power Plant, with existing conventional co-gen > >equipment, and replacing (retrofitting) old fuel source with Brillouin’s > >hot tube NHB™, together with renewal of an operating power purchase or > >steam heat contract with an industrial or a utility > > > >This is inventing a railroad train, using it to transport horses, and then > >riding on the horses to get where you want to go. >
I meant that using it in a 50 MW power plant connected to the grid is too circuitous. Just use the energy directly for some application. I do not see much future in 50 MW electric power generators once cold fusion becomes common. You might as well start with the configuration that is likely to become common. They are imposing the restrictions of present-day technology on a future technology which works fine without those restrictions. People often do this, as I described in my book. Perhaps a better analogy would be inventing internal combustion engines, which allow a vehicle such as a Model T Ford to go anywhere, and then using these engines only to power replacements for horsedrawn and electric trolley cars, which must run on a fixed track. If you can get rid of the track, why keep it? If you can power things directly from a home generator, why fool around with a 50 MW generator? I wouldn't even bother with a 1 MW unit, such as one might use in a shopping mall. - Jed
