I wrote:
> I assume input will be hundreds of times lower than output and C.O.P. will > be effectively infinite. > I assume that because it has been done. I am not handwaving or imagining things without any basis. If it can happen once in a laboratory today, we will eventually learn to make it happen billions of times a day worldwide. That has been shown time after time in the history of modern technology, starting around 1880. Rare events become commonplace. Rare materials becomes cheap and abundant. The prime example is aluminum. It was a precious metal in Napoleon's court. Then in 1889, Charles Hall found a way to extract it cheaply and now we throw the stuff away. The solar system has so much raw material in it that in the distant future we will -- literally -- be able pave our streets in gold if we feel like it. The only limits will be the environmental harm of putting materials in places they do not belong. The most abundant resource, by a huge margin, is energy. The sun produces 2.8 * 10E26 W. - Jed
