Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: So users of big process power from high grade heat are steel mills, cement > plants, glass plants, petrochemical refiners, cargo ship, train engines, > earth movers, aircraft, trucks, autos, water desalination, buses, pumps, > mines... >
Most process heat will come directly from cold fusion. I do not know if high grade heat for steel mills is possible, but heat for most industrial processes as well as heat for space heating and thermal air conditioning will come from cold fusion directly, not from electricity. Buses, autos and pumps, cargo ships and whatnot will self powered. These are not megawatt applications. Cargo ships and train engines are megawatt applications but the number of units sold each year is small. There will be a few thousand reactors on that scale, whereas there will be hundreds of millions of reactors at 100 W or less. The small end will be a bigger industry, and it will supply a larger fraction of total energy. Petrochemical refiners will not exist. Petrochemical plastic feedstocks will be made from garbage, or from air and water, and other local sources. Not oil pumped from the ground and transported long distances. Aircraft and spacecraft engines are megawatt applications. They will be among the last to be developed, because they are complex and they have to be foolproof and extremely reliable. - Jed
