I often agree with you to a very large number of topics. But here, I'm not. Once the LENR is commercially available, the energy prices will decline slowly but steadily. The wind turbines and solar (heat, or photovoltaic cell) require a huge amount of capital per kW/h produced. Thus, the investments in those green power technologies have very long term, before becoming positive. This therefore requires that the price of energy does not decrease.
I'm not saying that LENR will immediately replace all other kind of energy sources. That will take ages, before LENR energy will be the 1st energy source in the world. Fossil fuel still has a long term view. But for the so called "Green Power Technologies", LENR will stop all the investments in this field. I think Siemens is aware of this as well. There are too many investments to do with low certainty of money back (in case of commercially available LENR reactors). For sure, I will not, for ever, invest my money in those technologies. _____ From: Jed Rothwell [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: vendredi 18 janvier 2013 22:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Vo]:A "Big European Consortium" has an eye on MFMP Arnaud Kodeck <[email protected]> wrote: My guess is Siemens. Why? 1. Because they stopped all their investments in Green power technology (Wind, Solar, .). If LENR becomes a commercial reality, all the business with "Green Technology" will be obsolete in the second after. It would premature to stop those investments now because LENR might come to pass. Even I think so, and no one is more confident that cold fusion has to potential to displace all other sources of energy than I am. It has the potential, yes. But first it must be controlled, then developed. There is no telling how long that might take. Even if I saw a working Rossi reactor, I would not advise Siemens or GE to abandon development of all other energy technology. Not just yet. - Jed
