I doubt 100W will heat your grand-grandson's house or drive4 the aircon but if you know it better... The Cold Fusion promise was for unlimited energy. Please teach me how to interpret he last sentence of the paper.
Peter On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > Peter Gluck <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Megawatts are better than kilowatts and kilowatts are better than >> milliwatts. >> > > Probably not in the long term. Most devices use ~100 W. In the future I > expect all power supplies to be self-contained, with no central generation > or even household generators. I mean that every light fixture, computer and > cell phone will have a thermoelectric generator. The most useful size will > be 1 to 100 W. > > Even early into a cold fusion era there will be few uses for a megawatt > generator. > > > >> Perhaps each have their specific market however I have serious doubts for >> milliwatts- energy sources for the pacemakers of cardiopathic artists in >> the flea circus are not so necessary. >> > > Pacemaker power supplies produce microwatts, I believe. > > Pacemakers may soon be powered by piezoelectrics or by blood. That will > eliminate the need to change out the battery, and the need for cold fusion > powered pacemakers. > > > >> The Violante et al paper is really good, it is about fine tuning of >> metallurgy >> and morphology- but reproducibility is under 20%. >> > > > p. 9 says: "I lot: Reproducibility > 60%, Excess Power > 100%" > > - Jed > > -- Dr. Peter Gluck Cluj, Romania http://egooutpeters.blogspot.com
