I wrote:
> The most valuable, and the most expensive energy sources are pacemaker and > hearing-aid batteries that produce milliwatts. > Correction: microwatts. 300 to 600 µWe (microwatts-electric). A cheap, reliable cold fusion electric power supply that produces 100 W would probably satisfy something like half of the world's energy demand. It would capture more than half the world's revenue stream, because the lower the power, the more money it is worth per watt of capacity. A 10 kWe power supply would put every power company and oil company out of business practically overnight. You do not need a 1 MW reactor to accomplish this. Rossi and others who make large machines do not understand the economics or the technology of energy. The number of applications for 1 MW or larger systems is tiny compared to the 1 to 10 kW range. We do not see it that way because we assume that every light and cash register in a shopping mall has to be powered from a single mains electricity transformer. Not true. If Edison had started out with cold fusion instead of coal-fired generators, power distribution as we know it would never have come into being. - Jed
