I meant to say: LENR will be built into things like cars and space heaters, BY the companies that manufacture these things.
I mean with in-house expertise, and in-house production lines. LENR will be tightly integrated into the design of the machines. Not something you can add-on from an outside vendor. No major car manufacturer would buy engines from a vendor. A HVAC company such as Carrier has more in-house expertise in designing a heat pump than any outside vendor. If Exxon tries to set up a production line churning out cold fusion cells, I cannot imagine who would want them. They have to be in a particular form factor, with particular performance characteristics to fit an application, similar to the power supplies, blowers and the other components in a furnace. That is what Carrier knows how to engineer and manufacture. The actual cold fusion component will be a minor part of the furnace in any case. If, in the future, cold fusion cells are made by outside vendors, that will be because the cells have become a standardized commodity, like a transformer. Something you order from a catalog that is available from six different vendors meeting various industry standard specifications. A business like that cannot replace Exxon Mobil's $44 billion profit made last year. It will be a nickel and dime business, worth tens of millions at best. The only outsider vendor who makes money in cold fusion will be R&D companies that hold patents. Patents do not last long. Exxon is not likely to come up with a patent in cold fusion any more than they are in medical research. They have no relevant expertise. Just having money will not buy them expertise, because lots of other corporations have money too, and they already have relevant manufacturing expertise. A company like Intel is better positioned to make money in cold fusion than Exxon will be. They know materials, and materials are the key to cold fusion. - Jed
