Mark Gibbs <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should read what I write more carefully: I didn't say CF/LENR > shouldn't be used but that possible unintended consequences should be > considered. > That seems sensible to me. Perhaps you should write about some of the unintended benefits. We can avoid unintended problems by anticipating them. The article raised the issue of lax regulations in third world countries. Even countries such as India and China now have sophisticated anti-pollution laws. Their cars are much cleaner than U.S. cars were in 1960. So, even poor countries will abide by sensible environmental regulations, if potential problems are explained clearly, and if cost-effective ways to avoid problems are engineered into the system from the start. As I pointed out, it is easy to keep tritium or any other radioactive materials sealed in a cold fusion cell. Tritium today is safely sealed in emergency "exit" signs, in a higher concentration than it is likely to be found in a cold fusion cell. The cell can be recycled in a sophisticated factory where the tritium is captured. India has thousands of state-of-the-art factories. I saw them lined up for miles along the highway going out of Chenai. Every major Japanese and European company has assembly plants. It would take only a dozen or so factories to recycle every cold fusion device in the country, assuming the devices last 10 years. The country can easily afford that. Furthermore, there is not likely to be any economic benefit to opening up the cells and recycling them manually, the way the Chinese recycle computers. - Jed
