ken deboer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Not quite cottage, but local full service lenr dealers and installers. > Some of these may carry 'off brand' or locally made small scale, lenr > devices special built for local or idiiosyncratic uses. > That would resemble the place I bought my latest computer: http://www.ttcomputer.com/ They assemble custom-built computers with a lot more oomph than most off-the-shelf ones sold by Dell or HP. Oomph because I hate to wait, and also so that voice input goes smoothly. I got an i7 CPU when they first came out. The high tech manufacturing was done by Intel, and these people only assembled the parts. They do not do much but it is a valuable add-on service for me, and I am willing to pay a small premium for it. It could turn out that actual cells can be made by small companies. I can't rule that out. But at this point I predict they will be more like batteries, computer CPU chips, hard disks, and other devices that require precision, cleanliness and robotic assembly. I do not expect they will be as capital intense or demanding as computer CPU fabs. According to Wikipedia, Intel has 8 fabs. Intel does not have much competition. Including the competition I suppose there are ~20 general purpose CPU fabs in the whole world. I expect there will be hundreds of factories that manufacture cold fusion devices of various sizes, for various purposes. - Jed
