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. ***Good point. But now that we have this 19th century power distribution channel in place, we should aim to keep it. The rollout for LENR should address what solar power rooftops & inverters are doing: feeding electricity back into the grid. Eventually, that will be the PURPOSE of the grid, a decentralized source of electricity.
In no way would this block the progress of small LENR devices powering every cash register and street light. Again, solar power comes to mind -- 2 days ago I pulled up a few solar powered walkway lights, as simple as can be, and put them right back where they were when I was done, in a few seconds. In the previous implementation, that would have included digging out wires from the ground. What we will see with a LENR rollout ( that includes larger generators feeding into the grid alongside smaller generators powering street/walkway lights) is that the Power Generation companies like PG&E will lose margin and eventually go out of business because the maintenance costs of that 19th century centralized system will outweigh the profit to be gained. Those systems were put in place by use of controlled monopoly & subsidization, and it's likely that such political power will aim to stay in place. They would be on the losing end of such a battle.
